Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have believed for some time that the Administration will inevitably have to draw on the Army National Guard and Reserve as well as the Marines' standby division. The Administration had hoped to avoid this disruptive measure, giving in only last month when it mobilized 14,000 airmen. A call-up of ground elements could well be more painful because a typical Guard division of some 14,000 men, for instance, is concentrated in one state, whereas the smaller air units are well distributed geographically. Among other possible steps to ease the shortage of trained forces would be an extension...
...rumors were whipped up by an anonymous telephone call four days later to one of William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee staffers. The caller urged the committee to investigate the reason why Columbia University Physicist Richard Garwin and several other nuclear-weapons experts had been sent recently on a secret mission to Viet Nam. Hence Fulbright's letter to Rusk-who brusquely denied that the Garwin mission had anything to do with nuclear weapons...
...Lincoln's office again and spied the child drawing pictures by her desk. As she tells it, L.B.J.'s face lit up, and he said: "Do you know who I am, Caroline?" The little girl stood mute. "I'm your Uncle Lyndon. I want you to call me 'Uncle Lyndon' whenever you see me." When he left, Caroline asked: "Is he really my uncle?" Told that if he were, he would have to be either her father's or her mother's brother, Caroline giggled and said, "Oh, Mrs. Lincoln...
...that most of the time the Geneva Conference does not exist. ICC reports are dutifully received and filed in Geneva, but they cannot be discussed or acted upon unless the Conference is in session. It has not been since 1962, and since co-chairman Russia must support any call for a new gathering, it is not likely to be in the foreseeable future...
Even in defeat, it looked as if luck might come to the rescue of the spunky Crimson. The two teams held their breaths as the officials debated a false start by Princeton in the decisive relay. Unlike the first event, however, the call went in the Tiger favor and for Harvard the dreams were over...