Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month presidency. The strain was evident-though with as consummate a showman as Lyndon Johnson it was often difficult to tell to what extent his gloomy, remote bearing was assumed for political effect. He bolted from receptions unwontedly early. After a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren was one of his guests of honor, the President was in such a hurry to return to his deliberations over Viet Nam that he left without bidding Warren good night...
...Fort Polk, La., where another Vietnamese village has been set up. The course consists of an extra 98-hour week of field training and marks the first time that the Army has given such specialized and authentic preparation to troops for a specific battle zone. "Our aim," says Colonel Warren Davis, 51, commander of Fort Gordon's 3rd Training Brigade, "is to turn out the kind of troops you would like to have when you are over there...
Feather in the Cap. The Peace Corps today recruits 85% of all volunteers directly from college-and because U.S. campuses have become hotbeds of social protest, finds itself looking for a new kind of volunteer. "We don't want beatniks," says Deputy Director Warren Wiggins, "but we have nothing against beards." The "quiet activists" that Wiggins seeks "don't carry placards. They do things like tutoring Negro school kids. They work without fanfare." In Wiggins' view, the best volunteer has "a basic service motivation, a certain flexibility, a lack of racial prejudice, a certain degree of adventurousness...
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach himself was both defendant and defense counsel. The court allotted eight hours-longest in memory-for oral arguments. Even Chief Justice Earl Warren was moved to note that the outcome of South Carolina v. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach would have "wide and profound implications in the life of our nation...
Oscar Handlin resigned as Winthrop Professor this Fall to accept the new Charles Warren Chair and to become director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History...