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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...
Globalism & Scatteration. As Lippmann sees it, the vital interests of the U.S. are in Europe and the Americas, not in the "soft regions" of Asia and Africa, where the U.S. has been sucked into the power vacuum left behind by the colonial rulers. As a result, "we have scattered our assistance to such a degree that we help everybody a little and nobody enough . . . In this globalism and scatteration we have created enough disappointment and frustration to generate a wave of anti-Americanism . . . Our security and well-being are not involved in Southeast Asia or in Korea and never have...
...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...