Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lausche this year, despite early polls hinting that he might be vincible. But while his proven ability to grab Republican votes discouraged the G.O.P., it enraged Lausche's fellow Democrats. As for Lausche, his acerbic disdain for party functions and factions, his baiting of the labor leaders who command much of the Democrats' mooted Ohio strength, and his conservative Senate record led Democratic State Chairman Morton Neipp to predict in November: "I feel that if labor works hard, goes all out, Lausche can be beaten...
...last two sets, Levin shifted his game to the baseline and outsteadied his nervous opponent. Whenever he did reach the net, Levin baffled Beik with perfectly executed drop vollies. Clearly in command, the Crimson ace captured the last nine games...
...perforations in computer cards, they indicated their first, second and third choices for President, their views on the Viet Nam war, and their attitudes toward urban problems. Fed into the UNIVAC 1108's memory bank in Washington, the results were tabulated and analyzed within 15 minutes after the "command" button was pushed on the giant computer, making Eugene McCarthy a happy man (see THE NATION...
...chief go-between with the North Vietnamese in Vientiane. Impossible, snorted the State Department; Sullivan was outranked by whole battalions of bureaucrats. "I know," retorted Harriman. "I'm sending them home." Result: the cumbersome U.S. delegation was cut by two-thirds, and Harriman had Sullivan as his second-in-command...
Promoting the Cause. As second-in-command of North Viet Nam's team. Thuy was a stubborn, wily opponent to U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman at Geneva in 1961-62 for 15 wearying months of bombast and bargaining over Laos. In Paris he can be counted on to be an equally abrasive advocate, doing his best to erode American stamina with long-winded tirades and propaganda points before the negotiators get down to substantive issues...