Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPARTAN: the big-punch, long-range missile in the overall anti-missile defense system called Sentinel. Spartan would be installed at most of the ABM sites as the first line of defense, its mission being to intercept attacking RVs (reentry vehicles, or warheads) while they are still above the atmosphere, hundreds of miles from their targets. Spartan performs a regional, or "area-defense," role...
...courtroom, District Attorney Jim Garrison got less than an hour of the jury's time in deliberation before they unanimously acquitted Shaw of plotting to kill President Kennedy. A less obsessed prosecutor might have reasoned from those circumstances that the jury believed he had no case. Not Big Jim. Said he: "The jury verdict simply indicates that the American people don't want to hear the truth...
...Here," for Mrs. Wicker and other well-to-do worriers, is a big, comfortable house in Cleveland Park, one of the charming residential areas that used to make Washington one of the nation's most habitable cities. Today, the capital's ambience-its malls and boulevards, its monumental architecture, cosmopolitan atmosphere and happily frenetic social life-seems imperiled...
...Middle East. At his press conference last week, the President reported "substantial progress" in conversations on the Middle East with France's De Gaulle, and "encouraging" talks with the Russians. Both favor an imposed settlement-a proposition that Israel adamantly resists. Though Nixon also added that the big powers "cannot dictate" a peace formula, the Israeli government worriedly held a special Cabinet meeting to hear a report on U.S. policy from its ambassador to Washington, Yitzhak Rabin. This week, eloquent Foreign Minister Abba Eban is scheduled to travel to Washington for a series of talks with officials...
Mantle could also bunt a team to death, because he was that rarest of all ballplayers, a switch-hitting slugger who could outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers...