Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes from and goes. Kennedy managed to draft a bill that was both 1) hard-knuckled enough to win the indispensable endorsement of Arkansas' labor-investigating John Mc-Clellan, and 2) so kid-gloved that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. does not plan to denounce it. The lone committee naysayer: Arizona's right-wing Republican Barry Goldwater, who called the Kennedy bill "milk toast," vowed to serve up his own hardtack substitute on the Senate floor. EURj[ Philadelphia Lawyer Robert C. Nix, newly elected to fill the unexpired term of a Congressman who resigned, took his seat on the Democratic...
...Albert Gore, who 16 weeks before was lecturing the Senate about the unemployment breadlines back home. And of the liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas. On the key motion to substitute Kennedy's broad proposals for Harry Byrd's limited aims. Kennedy lost Arizona's Carl Hayden. Alabama's Lister Hill and John Sparkman, Oklahoma Millionaire Robert Kerr and Texas' Ralph Yarborough...
Book Publisher (Random House) and TV Paneluminary (What's My Line?) Bennett Cerf gave a group of Arizona businessmen the line on the modern novel: "There have been too many in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results...
Yellow for Caution. Yellow caution lights flared all over the track. The drivers who had escaped the crash held their positions while the track was cleared. But eight cars were out of commission. When the caution lights blinked off, the front runner was a handsome, husky, 31-year-old Arizona cowboy named Jimmy Bryan...
They frequently do just that. Items: ¶The Air Force last year cut NORAD's Air Force radar warning patrol for three months to meet cuts in its own maintenance and operation budget. ¶The Army recently decided not to man a $2 million NORAD radar station in Arizona. It also reduced the personnel of its Nike missile batteries. ¶The Navy last week pulled one of NORAD's radar picket ships off NORAD's early-warning patrol without prior notice to NORAD headquarters...