Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pueblo affair, and just how much can be achieved without it is questionable. In any event, U.S. officials are determined to square accounts. Describing the hijacking as "an act of war," Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared grimly: "My strong advice to North Korea is to cool it. There have been enough of these incidents...
Risky Options. If Pyongyang decides not to cool it, however, the options open to the U.S. all involve serious risks. One is to storm Yonghung Bay and either retrieve Pueblo from Wonsan or destroy it-though a commando-style raid of the sort might involve heavy casualties. Seizing a North Korean ship or two would hardly be worth the effort inasmuch as the biggest, most attractive vessels Pyongyang has afloat are two 500-ton Russian-built mine sweepers. A blockade of Wonsan would mean cutting the Soviet submarine fleet off from one of its principal Far Eastern ports. Nabbing...
...guys've flipped, but I'm playing it cool...
...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and ruddy-cheeked Clifford who was selected by John F. Kennedy to program the takeover of power from President Eisenhower in 1960. And it was Clif ford's cool, analytical arguments against extending the 1965 Christmas pause in bombing North Viet Nam that have lingered in the President's mind as right -even though Johnson bowed to other pressures and grounded the planes for 37 days. Clifford was called to the White House Situation Room when war flared in the Middle East last June and Mos cow activated the "hot line...
Clifford treads the corridors of power with sure feet, exuding cool aplomb and "command presence." He helped draft the 1947 and 1949 laws that unified the armed forces and has maintained a close liaison with both the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright admits that his close personal friend "certainly has great qualifications...