Word: backups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Determined to appear at least, Clark persuaded BRM officials to lend him a backup three-liter that belonged to BRM's own racing team of Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart. Mechanics worked all night installing the engine in Jim's Lotus; the job was not completed until ten minutes before race time. With no chance to test the engine, Jim figured that his chances of winning-or even of finishing the 248-mile race-were about 1,000 to one. "It was 30 laps before I tried to put on any pressure to see what would happen...
From the point of view of the Asians, a withdrawal of American troops under the right circumstances would be even more welcome. Because of their comparative affluence and their massive backup needs, U.S. forces inevitably distort and disrupt local economies. Necessary as the U.S. military presence is in Asia now, few Asian leaders are very happy about it-or want it to continue indefinitely in the future. Their sentiments spring from pride and from fears that massive American garrisons will destroy traditional cultural values and unduly shape local political decisions. "There is a feeling among Asians," says Edwin Reischauer, former...
...mimeograph release charging that the U.S. was "running short of bombs despite all the billions we have voted for defense" and that this clearly showed "shocking mismanagement" by the Defense Department. Ford also accused the Administration of creating a "national scandal" by allowing a shipping backup to slow materiel deliveries to U.S. troops in Viet...
SECOND BASE: Shepard has moved junior Neil Houston from third base to second, and he'll almost certainly be the starter. Houston is fast and agile, but hit only .224 last year. Sophomore Dick Manchester is the backup...
...training with a "rendezvous simulator" machine in preparation for the chief goal of their space flight-a complex docking maneuver with an Agena rocket-the astronauts left Houston at 7:35 a.m., with See at the controls. Right on their tail in another T-38 was the Gemini 9 backup crew, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Thomas Stafford, who copiloted December's Gemini 6 flight, and Navy Lieut. Commander Eugene Cernan. Though an enormous cloud canopy hovered over much of the Midwest, it was strictly a run-of-the-mill flight...