Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the series work, the quarterback must react to the development of the defense and chose his option in a split second. If the quarterback is capable of this, the "outside belly" series is extremely tough to defense. Yovicsin may also employ an "inside belly" series now and then...
...against Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, the Democrats chose James B. Donovan, 46, a stocky, pink-faced, balding political newcomer who negotiated the release of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers, and is currently working for the liberation of prisoners taken by Fidel Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion. For attorney general, against the G.O.P.'s Louis Lefkowitz, they put up Manhattan Borough President Edward R. Dudley, 51, the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia from 1948 to 1953, and the first Negro ever nominated for statewide office in New York...
...Matter of Economics. To the astonishment of many aviation experts, the CAB chose to pass over past safety and maintenance violations to concentrate on economic questions. The theory, as outlined by one CABman, sounded like a textbook social worker's solution to juvenile delinquency: the nonskeds' financial hardships have spawned slipshod maintenance practices. So the CAB was looking for signs of financial health and was content to take FAA's word that the applicants satisfied safety requirements. But such assurances from the FAA are hardly reassuring; it had said before their disastrous crashes that Imperial and President...
...Britain's giant Distillers Company Ltd. was at a crossroads. Its sales of industrial chemicals were sagging, but its whisky sales (Vat 69, Johnnie Walker,, Haig & Haig, Black & White) were soaring. Deciding not to fight the trend, the company last week chose as its new chairman an old-line whisky man, Ronald S. Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more...
...widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...