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...founder and organizer of the first Mattachine Society (Los Angeles, 1949-53), I call upon its many inheritors to abandon the culs-de-sac of sectarianism and special pleadings and make common cause with the many fronts of the Free Generation confronting the real enemy?male chauvinism...
This week the editors take pleasure in announcing their association with another group of experts: TIME's board of economists, composed of eight distinguished scholars. The board will not be called upon, of course, for routine readings of economic happenings and business activity. Rather, its members will act as consultants on major developments-as well as gather four times each year with the editors in New York for a full day of wide-ranging discussion across the entire spectrum of past, present and future economics...
Waffled Points. Nixon set forth his plan "for the complete withdrawal of all United States combat ground forces and their replacement by South Vietnamese forces on an orderly scheduled timetable." All that, he said, is contingent upon continued improvement in the fighting ability of the South Vietnamese-and on continued indications that the level of battle is lowering. He warned Hanoi that any stepped-up enemy action would bring "strong and effective measures" in response. It was a tough speech, and in it there was no gesture of accommodation to those who backed the Oct. 15 Moratorium protest. The President...
...Possible U.S. Troop Withdrawals: In the short run, I do not believe it would correspond with the common interest, including the interest of the United States, to change things in a substantial way. We agreed upon an offset arrangement for two years. It was an understanding on both sides that during this period there would be no substantial changes. We are in a discussion within the Atlantic Alliance on how we could make moves vis-à-vis the East in order to try, if one can, to enter into serious negotiations about an equal reduction of troop levels. This would...
...have lived in Paris as a young man," wrote Ernest Hemingway, who did love Paris, "then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." New York, wrote Thomas Wolfe, who did not always love it, "lays hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory; he feels that he can never...