Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memoirs of the late Senator Robert Kennedy [Oct. 25] provide a timely lesson on the virtues of civilian control over the military. Military blunders, miscalculations and misjudgments have been more frequent than history and texts record. Lucky for us that President John F. Kennedy was conscious of military fallibility when he so brilliantly resolved the Cuban crisis in 1962. With due respect to our dedicated and loyal military leaders, let us hope that our President will never subordinate his judgment to theirs, particularly in this age of the bomb...
...after state indicated a keen sense of discrimination and a resistance to predictable patterns. In the House elections, incumbents seemed to enjoy the edge. In several Senate and gubernatorial contests, the voters reached for new personalities. In New York, Humphrey gained an easy victory, while the Republicans ended Democratic control of the state assembly...
...band director Jim Walker acknowledged yesterday there is pressure to keep the shows at the Brown and Yale games reasonably clean. Walker indicated there has been scattered flak, hotly in private the band's spoof of the Papal encyclical on birth control at, of all games, the one against Holy Cross...
...achieving the 30-40% of Citroën stock that it had originally aimed for. Instead, it will get only 15%, with no strings attached. Yet Fiat will actually have much more leverage than that, since it will have a large share of a holding company that will control its new partner, Citroën. Most of the holding company's stock will come from France's tire-making Michelin family, which now owns over half of Citroën and which opened the original merger talks with Agnelli, an old friend of the family...
...whole apparatus, bent on hitting a golf ball smartly, tips and convolutes and lunges, the Japanese admirals clutching each other for support in the main control center up in the head as the structure rocks and creaks. And when the golf shot is on its way the navymen get to their feet and peer out through the eyes and report: 'A shank! A shank! My God, we've hit another shank...