Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position is, therefore, not that I favor a rapid withdrawal as a matter of policy but that I see the strong possibility of such a withdrawal as a matter of prediction-and I have come to the reluctant belief that the war is probably destined for a messy ending sooner than most Americans expect...
Intelligence experts argue that if the Soviets continue their present programs while the U.S. stands pat, there will inexorably come a point when Soviet forces equal and then surpass the U.S. in total numbers of offensive nuclear warheads. That is an updated version of the 1960 missile-gap worry. The problem with it is that neither side can now know the other's intentions concerning additional weaponry...
...Senators and "downtown," an often pejorative Capitol Hill term for the executive branch. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky has been getting no answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers. The President himself angered many Republican Senators of every political hue. They could rarely...
...groups of demonstrators had come together in front of the main entrance. Police methodically unloaded their vans a few blocks away on both sides of Osborn...
...such scrimmage planned for Sunday. November 23. "The main purpose of Friday's game." explained Harrison yesterday, "is to show people what we're doing with the program. This weekend's football game is the last one at home, so there should be a lot of alumni who will come watch the basketball match." he added...