Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford...
With Meany so vigorously in command, labor experts say that he will not only stay in office for as long as he likes, but will probably be able to pick his successor when he does decide to go. Meany's most likely choice is Lane Kirkland, 52, now the AFL-CIO'S secretary-treasurer. Although Kirkland is not "a man to set 'em on fire," in the words of one union official, he is respected as an able, knowledgeable and tough-minded leader. He is also something of a diplomat. Kirkland keeps telling people that he will...
...COMMAND POST IN THE SKY: Defense Secretary James Schlesinger this month urged Congress to approve the construction of a squadron of modified Boeing 707s equipped with monstrous, mushroom-shaped radar domes for the Air Force's new airborne warning and control system (AWACS). Literally a command post in the sky, each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over...
...missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North Dakota and the North American Air Defense Command's Cheyenne Mountain headquarters in Colorado, which keeps track of every man-made object in space (3,269 at last count...
...plot itself is the entertainment--doors constantly opening and closing: first one then two characters forced to hide in the closet. Here the plot is about as lissome as a set of steel girders on which to hang puns, blowing like so many colored handkerchiefs with the command "laugh" emblazoned on there...