Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wisconsin (12). Federal patronage, plus Republican factionalism and the presence on the ticket of Democratic Senator William Proxmire, one of the U.S.'s most energetic campaigners, give Kennedy a bare edge in an unpredictable state...
...Virginia's Jennings Randolph, Oregon's Wayne Morse, Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. Trying a similar tactic, though on a smaller scale, Massachusetts Republican Leverett Saltonstall came within a whisper of succeeding. He proposed a straight 1%, or $158 million, cut in procurement spending, lost by a bare two votes...
...still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare the appropriation to a bare-bones $4.2 billion. The measure now goes before the full committee, where Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, the chairman, aims to cut out as much...
...Cover) The husky, ruddy-faced man looked like a tough trail boss in a TV western as he mounted his palomino and set off across the rugged mountain country north of Los Angeles. He wore thread bare khaki trousers over his riding boots, a red Western shirt and a modified stetson, and packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...
Founders of the organization hope that in addition to spreading the karate (pronounced kah-RA-tay) discipline, they will be able to dispel the mystery and misconceptions which usually envelop the sport in America. For, contrary to popular opinion, karate is not the science of breaking boards with a bare hand, does not involve any particular toughening of the hand as a weapon, and, in fact, does not consider the hand any more important than any other part of the body...