Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contenders for California's gubernatorial race next year are liberal Democratic Governor Pat Brown, who is almost certain to run for a third term, and Movie Actor Ronald Reagan, the state's fast-rising conservative Republican. Brown and Reagan are both the favorites for nomination within their respective parties. Yet neither, it turns out, ranks as his party's strongest candidate for the governorship...
There is no new Cabinet Secretary yet. Busby's other duties will be divided mainly between McPherson and another new White House aide, Joseph Califano Jr., 34. Brooklyn-born and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Califano is moving up fast in the L.B.J. entourage only two months after being lured over from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's staff...
...detonation, then lit a drooping wet cigarette and casually announced "Them's incoming sixties landin' over there 'bout a hundred yards. Nothin' to worry about." He took off his helmet wiped his face. "You know, we Airborne, we like to get things done real fast, get in there quick and out quick killin' as we go. Here in Viet Nam there ain't no hurrying. We send five hundred men out on squad-sized patrols every day back at base. And we get nothing. Maybe this time...
...products helped in the creation of the first atomic bomb, also made possible the production of synthetic penicillin and vitamin B12. All of these tasks-and many more- are the business of a little-known Connecticut company named Perkin-Elmer Corp., one of the fastest growing members of the fast-growing scientific instrument industry. Variety has paid well for Perkin-Elmer: last week it reported its tenth straight year of record sales ($66.7 million, up 17%) and its eighth straight year of record profit...
...folds of a native robe. Nowhere is the new African businessman doing better than in Nigeria, black Africa's most populous and most prosperous nation. With a population of 55 million and an economy that grows 4% each year, the number of Nigerian millionaires is growing almost as fast as the country itself...