Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Church Street Corporation, which took over the management of the 150-car garage last year to prevent it from going out of business, may decide to acquire adjacent land and put up a bigger building. This would undoubtedly help to relieve Cambridge's chronic parking problem...
...uncovering Troy," says one Army officer. "You always find another layer." Says a top Defense Department official: "I look at the whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget of $21.6 billion during the Korean war, the Army slumped in peacetime to 856,000 men and $9.5 billion...
...Army's Chief of Staff from 1953 to 1955, General Matthew Ridgway fought publicly for a bigger budget for conventional warfare-and was eased out of the Pentagon. General Taylor, Ridgway's successor, waged a behind-the-scenes battle-and resigned in 1959 in frustration. Next came two men who have been criticized for their lack of drive. General Lyman ("Lem") Lemnitzer, 62, a brilliant staff officer with little combat experience, served as Army Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President...
...role as reporter, if not as upholder of taste, the museum could hardly have ignored the movement. For the last few years, the assemblers have been taking a bigger and bigger share of the limelight from the abstractionists. Their purpose is to free art from its own limitations by rejecting any dependence on traditional materials-the painter's oils, the sculptor's bronze. Assemblers believe that art can be found in any facet or aspect of everyday life. They scour attics, dumps, and shops to find objects that catch their fancy. They arrange these objects without any regard...
...Miami Beach are as fancily expensive as anything staged by General Motors. Says Chicago Labor Consultant Saul Alinsky: "I've heard European union officials say they were damned if they could tell the difference between American labor lead ers and businessmen-except that the labor leaders drive bigger cars and dress better...