Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ganglia of Government. The task that confronts him is formidable. Beyond setting broad policies, choosing from the plethora of recommendations being churned out by his advisers, keeping close vigil over the Viet Nam negotiations and the conduct of the war itself, Nixon must establish control over the balky federal bureaucracy. The vast ganglia of government, housed in 141 buildings in and around the capital, cornmand 6,300,000 in military and civilian personnel (the figure was just 4,800,000 when Nixon left Washington in 1961). Somewhat apprehensively, this awesome apparat still waited for the impact of the change...
Tragic Experience. The holocaust killed 26 and injured 85; one crewman was missing. It was not extinguished for three hours and 21 minutes (though it was under control after 41 minutes). Back at Honolulu, 1,500 civilian and military personnel lined up outside of the U.S. Army's Tripler General Hospital and Queen's Medical Center in response to pleas for blood. Soon after the gutted ship returned to port, a team of damage experts boarded her and, after viewing the gaping deck holes, decided that the seven-year-old, $444-million carrier would have to return...
...through Rosenberg and his wife Ethel that Sobell got into trouble. The Government later produced evidence that Sobell and the Rosenbergs did far more than pass pleasant evenings together. Sobell, said the Goveminent, gave the Rosenbergs secret information, including details of firing control mechanisms for weapons, and recruited a high school classmate into a spy ring managed by Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York. When the Rosenbergs were tried in 1951 on charges of passing U.S. atomic secrets to Russia, Sobell was a codefendant. Found guilty, the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 after the failure of a worldwide...
...students, however, said that no settlement had been reached with the Brandeis administration. Black spokesman Randal C. Bailey said, "We intend to continue our struggle at Brandeis to gain effective control of the Afro-American Studies Department to be established here...
...some circumstances, like the ROTC debate, students would have to show complete emotional control," Glazier said. "The Faculty could reject the entire principle of student presence for one outburst," he added...