Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready-for-anything national attitude would help John Kennedy's diplomats in any discussions with the Soviet Union. During the Laotian peace talks-which still drag on in Geneva-Communist diplomats have refused to believe that the U.S. would carry out its halfhearted threats to defend either Laos or embattled South Viet Nam with force of arms-and U.S. negotiators have been unable to prove them wrong. Aware now that the U.S. at last means business, Tass, in its bitter response to Kennedy's speech, insisted that the West had exaggerated Russian responsibility for the Berlin crisis. Khrushchev...
ALREADY well dug in, and well prepared to defend U.S. commitments around the world, the U.S. Army will get $1,440,000,000 of President Kennedy's new $3,454,600,000 defense request, spend it mainly for the manpower and firepower of conventional warfare. Behind the request is President Kennedy's decision, long advocated by Presidential Adviser Maxwell Taylor (TIME cover, July 28), to make U.S. defenses flexible enough to meet a Communist attack on its own terms-wherever it hits, whatever its weapons-from rifle bullets to nuclear missiles...
...alliterative and unlikely combination of Cadillacs, Chevrolets and corn stirred Capitol Hill last week as New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating took to the Senate floor to defend the well-publicized trip of a Mr. Smith, who went to Washington in a Cadillac bought with federal money he got for not growing corn...
Plainly miffed that the U.S. is providing the Pakistani Air Force with modern F-104 jets armed with air-to-air missiles, Nehru sniffed that Ayub had better think twice before attacking India. "A country which is economically strong can always defend itself against any military might." explained Nehru with more vehemence than logic, "and a few fighter aircraft received from the U.S. after adopting blackmailing tactics will not help Pakistan, which has made very little economic progress since...
...mind off political worries by acquiring an occasional painting. Last week a London gossip columnist delighted in detailing a recent Gaitskell purchase: a nude painting of attractive Lady Coldstream, 26, sometime model and fulltime wife of Fine Arts Professor Sir William Coldstream, 53. The painter, Anthony Man. labored to defend the conservative nature of Gaitskell's buy. "Mind you," said Man, "it's not a nudey nude of the 'Oh, I'm shivering because it's cold' type. It's a side view, really a very discreet affair...