Word: behest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serving his second term as JCS chairman (he stayed on at Ike's behest), Air Force General Nate Twining, 62, will retire before his term expires next August, the White House announced last week. Twining underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and for a ruptured appendix in February. Likely successor: Army Chief of Staff Lyman L. Lemnitzer (TIME cover...
...himself last week. He announced that the Dominican government, meaning Trujillo, would put through its docile National Congress a constitutional amendment legalizing the Communist Party. Also scheduled to be made respectable by the same law: the Brooklyn-based Jehovah's Witnesses sect, banned since 1957, largely at the behest of Roman Catholic authorities...