Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, "they're kicking the hell out of us!" The Windy City's plain-spoken boss was referring not to Republicans, but to underprivileged citizens who might ordinarily be among his most loyal supporters were it not for a delayed time bomb built into the $2.3 billion war on poverty that has repeatedly brought the Democratic program into conflict with big-city Democratic machines...
...issues thus were clearly drawn: youth v. age, temperance v. Gaullist hubris abroad, the needs of ordinary Frenchmen v. building the Bomb. As the campaign progressed, successive polls showed De Gaulle's once massive support tumbling. Alarmed, Gaullist strategists persuaded the general to use more of his television time. Forced into a defensive plea ill-suited to his imperial style, he came off poorly, looked pale and haggard beside his youthful competitors. Gaullist ministers whirled into a frenzy of activity in the closing days of the campaign, but it was too late. The televised image stuck. "Suddenly the father...
...runoff campaign opened with televised speeches of the two candidates last week, Mitterrand declared war on some of the general's pet policies. He said that as President, he would sign the nuclear test ban treaty, which "would mean canceling next year's South Pacific hydrogen-bomb test, move to heal the Gaullist-created Common Market breach in Brussels, and send French representatives to the Geneva disarmament talks that De Gaulle has long boycotted...
...tireless, didactic liberal of the ban-the-bomb breed, Cameron worked on Fleet Street papers before he broke loose on his own. He prides himself on getting into areas forbidden to other newsmen, and he wangled permission to visit North Viet Nam for a month this fall. His report is a rare eyewitness account by a Western journalist, but it leaves little doubt of Cameron's own emotional commitment: he firmly believes the U.S. has no business whatsoever in Viet...
...much more expensive for us," said a NASA official. "We'd have had to pay people to do the same work over a longer time. This is not a crash program--we're not developing duplicate systems and then discarding the least efficient, as they did in the atom-bomb project...