Word: clark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the peace talks began in May, the State Department established a separate communications channel with Paris and drew up the nation's most exclusive readership list. Once the final phase began about a month ago, Lyndon Johnson emphasized to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Clark Clifford that it was "a period of the utmost sensitivity," specifically instructed them to remain silent about developments. At that point, the minuscule distribution list for cable traffic from Paris and Saigon was trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five...
True. But not quite that simple. In 1961, the U.S. owned precisely ten ICBMS, and the Russians had only 50% of this-just five missiles. In 1968, Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford has noted, the U.S. has a total of 1,054 land-based missiles, while the Russians have installed...
...entire female constitution by analogy with the supposed immobility of the ovum.... In actuality, each month the ovum undertakes an extraordinary expedition,...an unseen equivalent of going down the Mississippi on a raft or over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Ordinarily too, the ovum travels singly, like Lewis or Clark, in the kind of existential loneliness which Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from...
Finian's Rainbow--A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...
Despite Humphrey's victory here, incumbent Democratic Sen. Joseph Clark was defeated in his bid for a third term by Republican Richard Schweiker. Clark, an early opponent of the Vietnam was and one of the most liberal members of the Senate appeared to be the victim of widespread ticket splitting. Schweiker is considered a moderate Republican in the line of former Pennsylvania Gov. William Seranton. The Congressional delegation otherwise remained the same, with the Democrats retaining a 14-13 majority...