Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story about Jordan [July 8] is pathetically misinformed and sensational. The strength of Jordan is well known. In connection with the recent stupid Nasserite propaganda campaign, King Hussein did not bother to alert military units or order top intelligence operatives to cancel trips abroad. Not a single leaflet appeared in Jordanian army barracks, nor did the refugees pay any serious attention to the vicious personal attacks on the royal family. The people and the government take their own works too seriously to have time for this polemical nonsense, and the throne in Jordan has proved a symbol of unity...
Fulbright began the debate by downplaying his committee's move, arguing that since the CIA "plays a major role in the foreign policy decision-making process," it was only reasonable that the Foreign Relations Committee should be interested in it. A broadened-and by implication more alert-watchdog group, he claimed, would be but a "small step in the Senate's formal recognition of its duty to exercise a more comprehensive oversight of U.S. intelligence activities...
...years, two of them as a navigator in SAC B-52s, I'm ready to hang it up. I haven't enjoyed much of it, but then nobody guaranteed me that I would. I have seen England, Hawaii, Okinawa, Bermuda, Guam, South Dakota. I've pulled Alert away from my family an average of three days a week. I've climbed over, banged on, shined flashlights into, and learned to love "The Bomb." I've seen Viet Nam from the air 21 times, and I've had my teeth worked...
Lieut. General Suharto, 48, is a stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) professional officer with wavy black hair, alert brown eyes, and an open, almost innocent face. He never had more than a high school education. At the time of the coup, he was virtually unknown outside the army. Whereas Sukarno has had at least six wives and seven children, Suharto has only one wife and six children. Sukarno drove around in a motorcade of screaming sirens (which Djakartans refer to as his "mating call"), while Suharto went about his duties in a Japanese Jeep. Suharto was more than...
...greatest public-works director in the country; he just doesn't dig people"). But he has as much fun flattening lesser dignitaries. When he took out after Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, Royko wrote: "Remember, back in 1959 Quinn was the person who put Chicago under its first atomic alert. He blew all the air raid sirens late one night because he got a kick out of the White Sox clinching a pennant. And anyone who can talk his way out of sending people into the streets in their shorts to await doomsday can talk his way out of anything...