Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military front and in the drive to bring social and economic reform to the villages. As for the hard battlefield cost, opinion was divided. Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr., the U.S. Pacific commander, thought that in spite of the turmoil, "we are doing quite well." Less sanguine officers closer to the conflict noted a sharp drop in South Vietnamese operations. One result was that for the first time in the war, U.S. combat deaths for a one-week period (ending April 9) outnumbered South Vietnamese 95 to 67; and for the first 99 days of the year, the U.S. lost...
...resigned in January as President Johnson's Office of Emergency Planning chief. During an earlier term as Governor, Ellington backed Johnson for President at the 1960 Democratic Convention, and the two have often exchanged visits and swapped breeding bulls. In his political views, however, Hooker is closer to Johnson, supports medicare, a Tennessee state minimum wage law and repeal of 14(b)-none of which especially appeal to Ellington. Hooker last week accepted the Tennessee co-chairmanship of the National Lawyers Committee for the President, a group organized to act as liaison between the legal profession and the White...
...miles into space. Now it seems that the electrons Luna encountered near the moon are temporarily confined there by the earth's magnetic tail in much the same way that the electrons and protons of the Van Allen radiation belts are trapped in areas of the magnetic field closer to the earth...
...board of tutors in History yesterday came a step closer to recommending sweeping changes in the Department's tutorial, thesis, and honors programs. In a general meeting vote on a four/point plan, the tutors favored three of proposals and rejected the fourth. Eight department tutors had drafted the plan after a series of small conferences with members of the board...
...Cavanagh, like LBJ, knows how to use their acceptance to make further gains. At the same time, Republicans--even Michigan Republicans--have changed. George Romney managed to convince voters that he was not the same kind of politician as the reactionaries that controlled the State Senate (although he is closer to them than most people think). Sixties Liberals have worked uneasily with Romney, but the Fifties Liberals have not been able to adjust successfully to the Romney appeal. They have a hard time realizing that state elections are no longer automatically theirs, and that their tactics (which they tend...