Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having failed at persuasion, Johnson tried ill-disguised pressure. He ordered a freeze on all nonessential government spending-notably the pork-barrel, river and harbor projects so dear to most Congressmen-as an economy move. To avoid the appearance of arm twisting, Johnson did not announce the move himself, instead reiterated his plea to Congress to enact his tax bill and cut expenditures. "I know it is not a popular thing for a President to do-to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular," Johnson told savings-and-loan...
Alvin F. Oien, 59, was hopping his single-engine Cessna from Portland, Ore., to San Francisco last March 11 when he crashed. Remarkably, no one was killed: Oien was cut up, an arm and some ribs broken; his wife, Phyllis, 44, had a broken arm and ankle, and his stepdaughter, Carla Corbus, 15, was badly bruised. They were stranded 4,500 feet up, in northern California's Trinity Mountains. Luckily, Phyllis, a Northwestern University graduate, was a trained nurse, and Oien, a rough, resourceful logger who had worked his way up to ownership of a Portland hotel...
Carroll will be taking over a financially solvent and smoothly running Press. He said yesterday, "My endeavor will be to continue and strengthen the significance and importance of the Press as the publishing arm of the University...
...Harvard arm of the national "Dump Johnson" campaign is expected to begin at a public meeting sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe and Law School Young Democrats next Tuesday night...
...keeping the wounded alive until they can be evacuated to hospitals in the rear. Shortridge uses a stretcher balanced between two sawhorses as his emergency operating table; hissing Coleman lanterns furnish the light, and an armored amtrack stands outside to accommodate extra patients. Most of the wounded suffer from arm and leg injuries. "That 20-lb. flak vest is worth five times its weight in gold," says Shortridge. "It must have saved a hundred lives...