Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clergymen from the Boston area who say they are "troubled, concerned, and confused" about the war in Vietnam have formed an ad hoc committee to provide background information to clergymen on the war in Vietnam. The committee hopes to serve as a stimulus for action to help...
...fight this kind of war for an extended period of time. To them, apparently, our escalation would represent an unsustainable last-ditch effort. General Vo Nguyen Giap, who defeated the French at Dienbienphu, published an article two weeks ago in the magazine of the North Vietnamese Communist Party, Hoc Tap, in which he emphasized that an enlarged commitment to South Vietnam would prevent the United States from meeting the obligations of its other alliances. Should the Communists cause trouble elsewhere, he reasons, we would be caught in an inescapable bind. The North Vietnamese do not believe that we would allow...
...real action is elsewhere, in the seething ghettoes beyond legislation. It would be a shame, however, if no one bothered to leave the trenches long enough to argue with the New Right. Maybe, just maybe, this curious agreement about "individual dignity" could be expanded into a little, ad hoc Consensus...
...which had just committed $15.6 million for two seasons of college ball, was "not terribly interested." The virtual elimination of the competition, however, did not necessarily make it a buyers' market for CBS. For one thing, the National Football League could peddle television rights to an ad hoc sports network on a station by station basis (as has been done frequently for golf tournaments). For another, if NBC and ABC were offering football programming, CBS could hardly afford...
...introducing more extensive computerization, fuller descriptions of men in the draft pool, and closer supervision of state decisions would eliminate many of the geographical discrepancies which plague the present system. This increase in accuracy and efficiency would require no major reform or expenditure. It would result, rather, from ad hoc revisions, made within the framework of existing procedure. The cost of the innovations would be minor compared to the damage which the present system will produce if allowed to continue unimproved...