Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Menuwise, I will never forget the day in 1960 when I stopped hungry at a drive-in with pretensions in Denver. There listed was an open-faced sandwich, "succulent slices of roast beef with delicious au jus." So help...
While rumors of a new Communist drive have bedeviled Saigon frequently since August, allied officers were not inclined to dismiss the current crop out of hand. Heavy action near the Cambodian border, a sharp upsurge of activity in the Demilitarized Zone and the presence of perhaps 1,000 Viet Cong sappers (demolition experts) and other agents in Saigon all pointed to trouble...
...pacification effort. Under any compromise reached in Paris, the political loyalties of the 12,000 hamlets that dot South Viet Nam's countryside could have a profound effect on the future of the national government. With that in mind, President Nguyen Van Thieu last October launched a major drive to secure 1,120 new hamlets before the Tet holiday next February. Nearly half of all U.S. military operations are now launched in support of this political effort, and the work is apparently beginning to pay off: last week the U.S. announced that 73.3% of South Viet...
...where he researched appeals for himself and other inmates. Described as "the King of the Courtroom Fakers" by Ebony magazine, Morgan practiced for eight years in Chicago, until he was exposed. Sentencing Morgan to prison for contempt of court, the judge quipped that his name alone "was enough to drive the man to almost anything...
...known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year it earned $651 million after taxes on revenues of $5.3 billion) that it could trim prices and still do well. But IBM knows only too well that a general computer price cut might drive some smaller competitors to the wall. IBM is also sensitive about its size, and about the fact that the Justice Department has long had it under examination. Beginning in January, Tom Watson's new general counsel and vice president will be Nicholas Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General. Another vice president...