Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There may be much wisdom in Johnson's present watchful waiting. But his relative inaction, especially concerning Viet Nam-where he insists that the U.S. must neither retreat nor expand the war-has created a kind of vacuum. And this vacuum is encouraging a growing chorus advocating U.S. withdrawal or something close to it (see following story). Therein lies perhaps the greatest challenge to Lyndon Johnson's potentially excellent first full term: he will have to master the Great Society, foreign division...
...replacement for bone in 700,000 operations a year, surgeons will now have available a regular supply of calf bone, specially treated to remove all dangerous protein. E. R. Squibb & Sons this week announced the first U.S. Government approval of a sterilized calf bone, vacuum-packed, which can be stored at room temperature...
...mobility, they are selling a prefabricated, delivered-to-the-site house that is easy to relocate. "We are the answer to low-cost housing," says M.H.M.A. Managing Director Edward Wilson. "The home-builders can't do much about it. They're tied. We have moved into a vacuum." The makers of mobile homes have grown into a $1 billion industry of 200 firms, five of which now have annual sales above $30 million...
...better to have a political vacuum than have Huong in power," said one of South Viet Nam's most respected Buddhist leaders. "This government will have to go." At week's end Provisional Premier Tran Van Huong had not yet gone, but the bonzes were once again doing their beatific best to bring about a vacuum that sooner or later the Communists might fill...
...moral tone of American life (as evidenced by her Life cover story "What Killed Marilyn Monroe?"), Mrs. Luce was thoroughly disgusted with the Presidential campaign. She complains that "almost no issues were discussed." "For example, we haven't had a China policy in fifty years." In this ideological vacuum, according to Mrs. Luce, "Republican doom-crying was so much less effective than Democratic prosperity-shouting...