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...vacuum of Alabama leadership, riot ruled. Some of the Nashville stu dents, joined by sympathizers, white and black, boarded a Greyhound bus and were escorted to Birmingham's limits by city cops, who then turned the whole business over to state troopers. But despite ample, early and dire warnings, no policemen were waiting when the bus pulled into Montgomery, Ala., a city that had been relatively free of racial violence since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a successful Negro boycott against bus segregation (TIME cover...
...rest of the world's producers, primarily the businessman. America today, she feels, is culturally bankrupt, a country without any intellectual leadership. It must be the duty of the new intellectuals (i.e., "any man or woman who is willing to think.") to lead America out of this cultural vacuum, back to Miss Rand's rationalistic, self-interest dominated society where men "deal with one another as traders, by voluntary exchange to mutual benefit...
...Vacuum cleaner...
...isolate the moral concept from its cultural context and have attempted to create an abstract subjective system of pure ethics. If this were all, we should be forced to conclude that modern Western society does not possess a civilization, but only a technological order resting on a moral vacuum...
Before the Geneva settlement, many rural portions of the South had been under local Communist rule for years. When the Communists withdrew to the North, there were pockets of vacuum left which Ngo's government never really filled. Add to this a picture of collapsing provincial and local authority in areas that were not under the Communists, and one begins to see how Ngo's very strength has been a liability: his presence in the country has prevented any delegation of responsibility to local leadership. Clearly Ngo is needed in South Vietnam, but it is equally clear that his central...