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Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner led a 23-expert team on a five-day tour of South Viet Nam probing the war-torn na tion's social needs...
...patient people," says Hubert Humphrey and most of the world agrees. Americans are seen-and see themselves-as restless and driven. New skyscrapers go up at the drop of a mortgage and are torn down almost as fast. Cars, houses, jobs and spouses are changed with an ease and rapidity that shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through...
...quell the demonstrations in the north, Ky sent the ousted General Thi back to I Corps to calm and reassure his own disappointed supporters, who included many of the soldiers in the two divisions he commanded there. It was a risky move: in his speeches Thi was obviously torn between a desire to rally support for a comeback and his soldier's distaste for adding to dissension, which helps only the Viet Cong. At week's end both Thi and the Buddhists, happily for the nation, had not yet set any fires. In fact, one leading Buddhist...
...incites it, as he acknowledges, by "rubbing raw the sores of discontent." Last week, following Alinsky's descent on Kansas City, the Missouri metropolis was sore all over. "Never in the 35 years that I have lived here," said one resident, "have I seen this town so torn by an issue...
...most importantly, we shall have thereby generated a climate in which rancor can be displaced by the spirit of charity, bitterness by compassion, fear by understanding; a climate in which good will shall flourish and abide in the hearts of our fellow citizens who have been torn by three stormy years of conflict and turmoil over the issue of racial impalance in our schools...