Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin "a pursuit for peace on many fronts"-including private proposals for a settlement that he initiated even before taking office, and a personal letter sent to Ho Chi Minh before the North Vietnamese President's death. "No progress whatever has been made," Nixon reported grimly, "except agreement on the shape of the bargaining table." The more support he got at home, he said, the sooner he could redeem his pledge "to end the war in a way that we could win the peace...
...report notes that Latin American nations spend a smaller percentage of their gross national products on defense than any other area of the world except Africa south of the Sahara. It recommends that the U.S. reverse the recent trend to reduce its security assistance. "At the moment there is only one Castro among the 26 nations of the hemisphere; there can well be more in the future," says Rockefeller. Moreover, the U.S. should not turn down requests from more advanced hemisphere nations for modern military equipment. "Realistically," he explains, "it will be purchased from other sources, East or West...
What inspires such love and pulls people to the great cities? What indeed is a great city? It is almost easier to say what it is not. Except for its wealthy elites, great cities do not always provide easy or gracious living; lesser communities are almost always more comfortable. Juvenal could have walked peacefully in any number of attractive provincial cities. The average resident of one of Britain's planned new towns lives better than his counterpart in London. Yet London, notes Robert Ardrey, author of The Territorial Imperative, was a great city "even when the food was terrible...
...third quarter was uneventful except for Princeton's fifth touchdown on a 38-yard drive. The Tigers, were almost stopped as the Harvard line held three times on the one-yard line. But then Doug Blake got into the end zone on fourth down...
...Princeton game is always unusually important for Harvard. Whereas a loss to Dartmouth does not necessarily doom all chances for a successful season or even an Ivy title, and the Yale game, except in rare cases, is meaningless in terms of championships, the Princeton contest comes at a crucial juncture...