Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was in Texas last week conferring with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam, Hubert Humphrey was laying a Veterans' Day wreath at Arlington Na tional Cemetery. While McNamara bat tled the aluminum industry in private, pleaded the Administration's case in public and announced the Government's "victory" (see U.S. BUSINESS), the Commerce and Treasury Secretaries - the officials most directly concerned - were little seen or heard...
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...Some chemistry is going on here," exulted Richard Nixon before 450 cheer ing Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner in Arlington last week. "Something new and exciting is happening in Virginia." At which Nixon turned to the principal chemist, A. (for Abner) Linwood Hoiton, 42, a Harvard-trained lawyer with Spencer Tracy (circa 1940) looks and Lyndonesque vitality...
...black faces were seen among the crowds that heard Holton and Nixon last week. Nonetheless, Holton may gain unexpected strength from a sizable new voting element: the young federal employees and their families who have fanned out across the Potomac to settle in Virginia's Fairfax and Arlington Counties. Many are mobile, highly professional newcomers who have liberal views but consider themselves politically independent; though employed by a Democratic Administration, they may well prefer a moderate Republican to a Byrd-backed Democrat. Whichever way they go, Holton seems certain to poll a record vote for a Republican gubernatorial candidate...
...student's muscular coordination and the development of his reading skills will be studied. Sacramento School Superintendent Dr. F. Melvyn Lawson wants to concentrate on psychological and psychiatric services for disturbed children, hopes to find out "what's bugging problem youngsters and why they cannot tick." Arlington, Va., educators are considering a music center, a planetarium and a science day camp. Responding to a survey in the trade publication, Grade Teacher, Detroit Teacher Jean Curtiss declared: "Oh boy, I'd like to see to it that every child came to school decently clothed, especially with warm clothes...