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...York, Researcher Pat Gordon, Writer Bruce Henderson and Senior Editor Champ Clark used the reporting of the three-man team as the chief material for the cover story. All worked in the hope that the result would help to close the gap of understanding by giving readers everywhere a better appreciation of what U.S. servicemen are doing in the war in Viet Nam, how they are doing it, how they feel about it, and how they add up the price of success or failure...
...often argue that what really matters to them is not democracy but modernization. Yet democracy has a strong economic content; it remains, despite Western moves toward collectivism in recent decades, a competitive society. The Communists claim that only some form of economic regimentation can help backward nations close the gap of centuries. The claim is almost demonstrably false, as is suggested by the Russians' own recent experiments with freer enterprise. Says Sociology Professor Edward Shils of Chicago University and Cambridge: "I have never seen any convincing evidence that one-party government is necessary for economic progress. One thing...
...five-length lead. Bold Lad moved into second place and stayed there, while the rest of the eleven-horse field was strung out up the track. Going into the final turn, Jockey Manuel Ycaza clucked to Bold Lad, and the white-stockinged chestnut slowly began to close the gap. But Flag Raiser was far from through. With Jockey Bob Ussery whipping furiously, he beat off Bold Lad's challenge, and in the end it was the favorite who tired. Almost unnoticed, Mrs. Ben Cohen's Hail to All (odds: 6-1) came out of nowhere to take...
...Cuban crisis further isolated the peace organizations throughout the country. In addition the growing civil rights movement was becoming a severe drain on the funds and enthusiasm of the peace groups, and by the fall of 1963 Tocsin was virtually dead. Last fall, after a year's gap, the Vietnamese crisis seemed to provide a rallying cry once again, and the peace forces regrouped under the banner of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization responsible for last weekend's march...
...Thee." As a finale we planned to stage a protest Easter egg roll in front of the buses. Unfortunately the buses had not arrived when the purely frivolous chants began to wear thin. An effort to play a tape of last week's "Shindig" to fill the gap failed because we did not have a loud enough speaker...