Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the House and Senate both voted last month to extend the draft for four more years beyond July 1, they clashed over significant aspects of Lyndon Johnson's authority to carry out his proposed reforms of the Selective Service System. This week a House-Senate conference committee is scheduled to begin bargaining over the differences. Items and prospects...
General William Westmoreland, who was quick to appreciate Walt's achievements-as was the Pentagon, which awarded him his third star after just nine months in Viet Nam-asked the Marine in the spring of 1966 to extend his one-year tour for six months. Then, after Walt's smashing defeat of a North Vietnamese division last summer, Westy asked him to stay another six months...
...draft age who oppose the present United States policy towards Vietnam, we believe that the establishment of an "alternative service" option would extend the inequities in the existing draft system and, more importantly, cut off potential sources of effectual protest among men in our "dilemma...
...more tritium, which raises the temperature of the blast, to the fissionable material. As a result, nearly 80% of the energy released by the explosion of the new warheads, believed to be in the one-megaton range, is in the form of high-energy X rays. To extend the lethal range of these rays, which are quickly absorbed or attenuated when traveling through air, the ABM warhead will be carried high above the atmosphere by the new Spartan missile and exploded in space in the vicinity of incoming ICBMs...
...beach goddess, Kicks, decide to kidnap a wealthy racketeer (Anthony Quinn). As it happens, Quinn is unredeemable. Desperate phone calls reveal that his wife and partner are cuckolding him ("For $200,000 you can keep the son of a bitch," she snarls). His Mafia associates refuse to extend their black hand; even his mother would rather help him with warm advice than cold cash...