Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never lost one since and as Delaware's Governor managed to coexist in cozy comfort with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. A campaign manager's dream-he comes from a family of small farmers, won five battle stars and the Croix de Guerre in World War II combat-affable Lawyer Boggs is said to know more Delawareans by first name than any other man in the state...
...stubborn conservative." As state attorney general he has become well known as a corn-belt Comstock through his war against pornographic magazines. A massive (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) lawyer and an impressive speaker, Republican Erbe is the son of a Lutheran minister, a war hero (D.F.C., 35 combat missions over Europe as a B-17 pilot). He advocates a cut in property taxes, more state aid to schools (to be paid for out of the huge surplus), revival of the state highway program...
...action had military, economic and political reverberations. In Washington jubilant Air Force officers said that they could now begin building two combat-equipped B-70's as well as two stripped models, start airborne tests in late 1962. On Wall Street the spending announcement set off a four-day market rally, paced by stocks of the null prime contractor (North American Aviation) and some of its 18 major subcontractors (G.E., IBM, Westinghouse, etc.). In Southern California, where the new funds will go far to fight unemployment in the airframe industry, Campaigner Jack Kennedy charged the Administration with a last...
Though last week's spending decision pumped new life into the B-70, airmen can expect many another fiscal fight. Navymen and missilemen argue that ICBMs and antiaircraft missiles will have rendered obsolete all manned aircraft by the time combat-ready B-70's go on the line in 1965. In rebuttal, airmen argue that planes always will be more accurate, reliable and flexible than missiles and that the U.S. always will need both. To keep the B70 program aloft, airmen require something like $400 million in the budget for fiscal 1962. How far and how fast...
...full view of Castro spotters on the hills surrounding Guantanamo last week, some 3,000 U.S. sailors and marines with full combat gear moved into position in an "exercise" simulating the defense of the base against overland attack. At the same time. Rear Admiral Allen Smith Jr., commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, announced that U.S. minefields, "plainly marked," have been planted just inside the fence around Guantanamo's 24-mile perimeter. So that there could be no lingering doubt as to U.S. intentions, agreeing to modification of these agreements, and will take whatever steps may be appropriate...