Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Table Talk. With this kind of trouble coming up, Bob McNamara quietly set about mending his fences on Capitol Hill. He made plans to appear before Congress again to restate his position on the RS-70s. He conferred with Chairman Clarence Cannon of the House Appropriations Committee. He even met privately and peaceably with Carl Vinson to talk over their impasse...
...from certain that the House and the Senate will go along with Vinson's attempt to direct the Administration to build the RS-70s; it is even less certain that the President, under the Constitution, would be required to obey. But Carl Vinson is too powerful, and too good a friend of the military and the Administration, to offend with impunity...
...Tool, 42, led a revolt two years ago to become state chairman, has lifted a dispirited state organization into one that threatens Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols and Democratic Senator John Carroll. He replaced 40% of the county chairmen, has reduced the average age of district captains from the 70s to the 40s, has armed them with detailed manuals on how to win elections...
...during his first successful House campaign in 1952 to win the National Amateur Golf Championship, was named captain of the U.S. Walker Cup team, which will battle Britain in September. Although the five-term Representative still gets around Burning Tree and the Congressional Country Club links in the early 70s, he only finds time for golf on weekends, and his new post is strictly a non-playing proposition...
...played against the great players of the '30s. and I heard them talk about the great ones of the '20s. Now it's the '60s, and some of the kids I'm playing with and against will be the superstars of the '70s. You get a long perspective, and the players are just as good now as they were then. The difference is in the game...