Word: deliverances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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His seeming ambivalence may be related to his close friendship with New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy, who opposes the bombings and is expected to deliver a major speech this week urging that they be halted. Yet both McNamara and Kennedy greatly respect the views of retired General...
Just a year ago, George Meany sputtered a pledge of non-allegiance to the Democratic Party, "because they can't deliver." The delivery rate has changed very little, but the A.F.L.-C.l.O. and the Democrats seem to have become publicly re-enchanted. At the federation's executive-council...
To launch Operation Junction City, which cost upwards of $25 million, the U.S. threw in 30,000 troops, the equivalent of two entire army divisions, and sent noisy C-130s over the area to deliver the first American combat parachute jump of the war. Giant trees crumpled as B-52s...
At the end of a particularly long corridor in the extraordinarily desolate building in Washington where the Department of State has its headquarters, there is a little door with a plaque bearing the legend: "Deliver diplomatic notes here." One can imagine young foreign service officers trooping down the corridor to...
Died. William C. Bullitt, 76, U.S. diplomat who left his imprint on history between the great wars; of leukemia; in Neuilly, France. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, he was a man of adrenal energy and immense flair, headstrong in his personal relationships (two marriages), fierce in his ambitions, spectacular...