Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frank Rendell, of M.I.T.'s Center of International Studies, spoke first, supporting the Administration's stand in Vietnam. Henry Aiken, professor of philosophy at Brandeis, replied that withdrawal was necessary for our American conscience...
...minutes into his speech, Aiken remarked that South Vietnam could not do a very good job of defending itself, and Rendell objected aloud. Rendell, a Briton who has spent a few years in Vietnam, told the audience from his seat behind the lectern that South Vietnam has the second strongest army in Southeast Asia...
...Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open on impact) that fell on land. Air Force generals even helped gather more than 1,600 tons of slightly contaminated topsoil* for burial in the nuclear-waste plot of Aiken...
...search was also drawing to a close. The Air Force, which recovered the three H-bombs that fell on land, had finished scraping 1,500 cu. yds. of contaminated topsoil into steel drums, was preparing to ship them aboard an American freighter to the U.S. for burial in the Aiken, S.C., nuclear-disposal plot. To celebrate an unpleasant job well done, the Air Force brought in a band that tootled prettily as airmen began striking their tent city near Palomares...
Watching TV during the last few weeks, Americans saw the spectacle of a half circle of rumpled men on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Chairman William Fulbright peering over his spectacles like a country-store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia...