Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roughly along the lines advocated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-converting the Navy to nuclear power, giving the Air Force the advanced manned bomber it has been seeking for years, going ahead with the Army's anti-ballistic missile system, modernizing and perhaps expanding the Strategic Air Command's missile arsenal beyond present plans. All of this is at least generally in tune with Nixon's campaign talk about a "security gap." Both men are aware, of course, that buying these and other weapons systems would cost tens of billions that would be almost impossible...
...director of the Budget Bureau will be Chicago Banker Robert Mayo, 52, who already has an impressive command of the problems he will have to grapple with after Jan. 20: last year he was staff director of a blue-ribbon study of ways to make the federal budget show a truer picture of what the U.S. Government actually spends. James Keogh, also 52, who is on leave from his post as executive editor of TIME, will be a special White House assistant handling a new job in which his function will be, he said, that of "a sort of managing...
...number four John Ince was forced to play longer points, but he remained in command and went in to win 15-8, 15-10, 15-11. Fernando Gonzales had little trouble in the first two games but had to come from behind in the third game...
They may not be real, but they are certainly presences-insistent as memory, disturbing as a sudden hush in a crowded room. Ghostly white, implacably still, they command a whole ambiance around themselves. Step too close to the motel bed with its sprawled, exhausted girl, and you feel as awkward as an intruder. Even the simplest figure-a naked girl slumped on a chair by a window, a woman emerging from a shower stall-seems not just a piece of sculpture but a centerpiece of some invisible living space. The mind's eye creates walls, curtains, furniture that...
...group's platform criticizes the HUC for having failed "to command power or bring about meaningful change." The Council "needs an initiative for power," the platform states, which the freshman class is in the "unique position to provide...