Word: cannoneering
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Missouri's cantankerous Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had taken umbrage at the way the Senate had been upping his antes on a supplemental appropriations bill. Democratic leaders were desperate by this time. President Kennedy, off on the campaign trail, pleaded with Cannon by telephone; no dice. Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, emerging from a meeting, growled: "I feel like punching somebody in the nose." That bill was stymied, but Cannon was not through. When the final appropriations bill came to the House floor late last
...usual, Harvard presented a much better performance in the second half, but McCarthyism and the jarring tackles of Harvard backs continued unabated. After the game, Bill Grana reported his head was rining from the tackles. The cannon on the sidelines left fans' ears rining as it boomed twice in eight minutes for Holy Cross TDs in the third quarter...
Stronger criticism of the lagging U.S. military space program came from Nevada's Senator Howard W. Cannon, a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. In a speech roundly seconded by Arizona's Barry Goldwater, himself a major general in the Air Force Reserve, Cannon warned that U.S. security depends upon the military control of space, since "the U.S.S.R. space program is being directed toward attaining military dominance in the near-earth space envelope." McNamara phoned Cannon for an appointment, slipped up to Capitol Hill for an hour and a half of serious discussion about the problem. Next...
...defenses should help ease Castro's fear of a new invasion. He is forever beating his propaganda drums against U.S. planes and ships intruding on Cuban waters (which the U.S. denies). Last week he proclaimed that "enemy ships" standing a few hundred yards offshore had pumped 20-mm. cannon shells into a suburb of Havana. "We hold the U.S. Government responsible," he cried. Actually, the bombardment was an unopposed nighttime firing on a waterfront Havana hotel housing Iron Curtain technicians, and the nearby Chaplin Theater, from a surplus PT boat and a fast cruiser manned by 20 members...
...shelter. The frustrated Grepos next tried to dislodge Bielig and his helpers by throwing tear-gas grenades onto the western side. Two minutes later, six West Berlin cops sprinted to Bielig's side and rained potent tear-gas bombs of their own on the armored water cannon until its choking crew was forced to stagger away...