Word: blanco
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...went off on one of his routine fishing trips and even attended a bullfight. But late in the week, after that impressive display of either vigor or iron will, Franco announced that he was stepping down as President and head of government. His successor: crusty, authoritarian Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, 70. It was far from a total retirement, since Franco remains chief of state (the nation's highest post) and head of the armed forces. Thus he continues as Carrero Blanco's superior. But never before in his 37-year political career had the diminutive...
Project Rio Blanco, as the May blast is called, is actually the third in a series of "nuclear wells." It follows the 1967 Project Gasbuggy, a 26-kiloton explosion in New Mexico, and the 40-kiloton Project Rulison in Colorado in 1969. The AEC has claimed that both of these previous tests were successful, since they proved the feasibility of nuclear drilling...
...Rulison was worth the effort; it was an experiment conducted to refine the technique of nuclear drilling. As for radioactivity levels in the gas, the AEC says that improvements in bomb design will minimize the problem in future blasts. Those improvements would presumably be incorporated into both the Rio Blanco devices and Project Wagon Wheel, a five-bomb, 500-kiloton underground explosion scheduled...
...well off by the standards-of the Texas of his time. Lyndon's father had earned a teacher's certificate and was active in state politics as well as farming. He married Rebekah Baines, who was possibly the only female college graduate in all of Texas' Blanco County. The marriage was recognized as genetically sound. As one neighbor put it: "The Baineses have the brains, and the Johnsons have the guts. The Baineses are intelligent, but they can't put things over. The Johnsons can put things over...
...Carrero Blanco, he is antiCommunist, antiMason, somewhat anti-American and rigidly nationalistic. He rarely smiles and is disliked within the military because he skipped the sea duty required for promotion to admiral. He also lacks Franco's deftness in playing factions against each other...