Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman who has had three husbands and abandoned her children to go searching for God couldn't get a security clearance to sell hamburgers in a base PX. I hope our system doesn't need approval from the likes...
...twelve-day-long battle began when a five-man U.S. forward-observer team went up Hill 861 for a look; only one man came back alive. Two Marine platoons that followed were stopped at the base of the hill by heavy fire. With that, Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis Walt pulled out all the stops, ordered two battalions into action. The Army's big 105-mm. and 155-mm. guns swung round to zero in on the enemy hilltops. Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb. and 2,000-lb. bombs and napalm, eventually dropped...
Since then, the Supreme Court has sustained Johnsonian opinions all the way. After Baker gave U.S. courts power over state voting districts, Alabama tried to base apportionment of the legislature's upper house on geography rather than population. A three-judge court including Johnson voided that idea in Reynolds v. Sims (1962), which produced the first court order for reapportionment in U.S. history. After that, Alabama tried to bar Negro legislators by combining white and Negro counties. In voiding that scheme in Sims v. Baggett (1965), the judges reapportioned the legislature themselves-another national first...
...year-old mother two weeks ago. The Johnsons have lost friends, though "none we wanted to keep." They belong to Montgomery's handsome country club, but the judge confines his avid golfing (mid-80s) to a few open-minded military partners at nearby Maxwell Air Force Base, where "it's easier to be just Frank Johnson." He is not about to defend his decisions by writing articles or giving law-school lectures. "Judges make their decrees...
...Engineer seventh, Harvard centerfielder Carter Lord -- robbed of an extra base hit in the first inning by one of Weissman's seven spectacular grabs -- saved Lincoln's shutout with a strong throw, holding a runner at third base...