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Great Disparity. Even in terms of Government-financed veterans' benefits, the Vietvet makes out worse than his counterparts of earlier wars. Whereas the World War II vet who wanted to further his education got full tuition, fees and book costs plus $75-a-month living allowance, the returnee from Viet Nam can expect a maximum of only $130 a month to cover everything. Currently, there are 450,000 returnees receiving G.I. schooling benefits. They enjoy slightly brighter job prospects than did their predecessors, largely because the U.S. economy is stronger than ever before. Last year the U.S. Employment Service...
...Cambridge, for instance, although the Irish had been staunchly hawk, the Italians had been outright anti-war or at least eager to listen to the CNCV's arguments. At the same time, the immigrant sections have been very vulnerable to counter-canvassing on the part of the Veterans. The Vet leaflet, which included a picture of an American flag and a short statement about "Freedom is not free," seemed to strike a responsive and ever guilty chord in many Italians. CNCV canvassers found that on Saturday, when the Vet literature began to circulate, the Italians became less prone to long...
Stamp's character is even more complex than Miss Christie's, vet is explained as little as hers. After the death, in childbirth, of the girl who had been his mistress, Stamp leaves Miss Christie and presumably drowns himself. He comes back, however, in a carnival Miss Christie attends and manages through elaborate efforts to keep her from recognizing hem. Why, then, does he return to her home to claim her in the next next scene? The fault is not Stamp's. He plays his part well, with touches of malice and touches of humanity, but with the script...
...head the State Department's new Policy Planning Staff, he succeeded in influencing the shape of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the designs for rebuilding Japan's economy. But then the pendulum began swinging too far the other way. From "the clumsy naïveté" of its wartime cozying-up to Moscow, Washington moved to the opposite extreme and adopted an unbending, monolithic attitude toward the Communist countries. Kennan believes that U.S. policy has been "bedeviled" for two decades by this approach...
...have given intensive thought to the re-entry problem, believes: "The experience of the military will integrate them into the larger society. They will be more likely to enter the mainstream of political American life." Military service, after all, makes a man wilier, not angrier, and the Negro vet will probably be more attracted to politics than demonstration or riot...