Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mondale and his fellow Pentagon hecklers, the zenith came in August when they fought-and nearly won-the debate against Nixon's ABM system, one item in the total defense budget. The Senate vote was 51-50. Though the Administration carried the day, the warning was sounded. The military, henceforth, would not be able to breeze through its requests for appropriations question-free. The lengthy debate that came to an end in the vote last week bore this out. "Just remember," said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, "this is a bill that used to slip through the Senate in hours...
...exacted a price for supporting the Nixon Administration's bill. The word came from Charles Overby, a Washington correspondent for the Jackson, Miss., Daily News, who until last month was an assistant to Stennis. Overby reported that the Senator had sent a letter to the Administration during the August congressional recess. Stennis reportedly wrote that with the upcoming fall desegregation of schools, he thought he should be in Mississippi for a while...
...France, the term la rentree does not refer only to spacemen plunging back into the earth's atmosphere but also to vacationers returning to the daily grind from their month-long August break. This year, re-entry for millions of Frenchmen was as rough as it ever was for an astronaut in his red-hot cap sule. For none was it more painful than President Georges Pompidou...
...Miller conceded one night in early August, from the divided medical opinion I hear on whether pot is harmful or merely like liquor, I could see doing an in-depth study and changing the drug law if the report shows that it isn't harmful." That is going pretty far for a "liberal" who advocates shooting looters if the situation warrants...
Battle beat Howell in the August run-off 52 per cent to 48, and Miller walloped Farley 64 per cent...