Word: central
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Established in 1947 by the legislation that also created the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, the NSC-was designed to integrate military, diplomatic and economic policies. Harry Truman did little to develop the NSC, but under Eisenhower it became an important force and acquired two subordinate branches, a planning board and an operations-coordinating board. Critics of the system charged that the NSC structure amounted to an obstructive bureaucracy. The Kennedy Administration did away with the subsidiary boards and operated on a more informal basis, with McGeorge Bundy running the White House's "little State Department." Lyndon...
...science degree from Occidental College and received a law degree from U.S.C. in 1951. Shortly thereafter, he entered and lost two congressional races. But between these beatings, Finch developed a lucrative law practice and a solid grounding in California politics. In 1956 he was named chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Los Angeles County. He did well for two years, but after the G.O.P.'s debacle in the 1958 congressional elections, he needed help. At Nixon's request, Finch came to Washington, where he showed his gratitude by running a magnificently organized convention drive to head...
...Assyrians celebrated the chase in bas-reliefs, the Chinese in stone drums, the Babylonians and Egyptians in frescoes. Millenniums before, cavemen at the foot of the French Pyrenees depicted a mammoth hunt on their cavern walls. The ingenious killing of beasts larger and more powerful was, after all, the central achievement in man's ascendancy over other forms of life. But the hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne, for instance, reportedly acquired the superlative in his name only...
...every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m. He is acutely aware that his audience is in the millions and that he is a very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce that Humphrey had carried California and was now NBC's projected winner...
Only 142 residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--voted against the program, which was made up of 29 separate projects aimed at improving housing, employment conditions, and social services in the area. 2639 voted in favor of the whole program, while about 400 chose to cast a separate vote on each project...