Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a desk chairman," says Bliss. "I don't profess to be an orator. I've always felt it my duty to build up the candidates, not Ray Bliss." The national build-up job that he faces now is monumental. The Republicans' rank-and-file structure, demoralized and in disarray after Barry Goldwater's leaden leadership, must be almost completely remodeled and reorganized. Dean Burch, inexperienced and fanatically loyal to Barry's right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were...
...morning, and the Communist antiaircraft crews guarding the bridge on Route 7, ten miles from the Laotian village of Ban Ban, were probably not hankering for extra work. Suddenly they had their hands-and gun sights-full. Screaming in low from surrounding hills was a long, swift file of supersonic U.S. Air Force jet fighters, which loosed a blizzard of bombs on the bridge, blowing it to bits...
...planes. With half of the craft flying cover, such small flights often failed to destroy their objectives. Explains a Pentagon official: "These are young, green kids, and there was a lot of flak around." Because of mountainous terrain, the U.S. jets usually must attack low, slowly, and in single file, which makes them all the more vulnerable; it was only last November when a jet fighter was shot down and its pilot killed...
Civilizing Law. Despite their bluster, says MacBride, most governments criticized by the commission are willing to discuss its complaints or to admit its investigating teams to probe alleged injustice. Sometimes, as in the case of last year's Panama riots, the commission does not even have to file a complaint. It is invited to make an impartial assessment, and it does. Called in by Panama, a three-man team, consisting of a Dutch law professor, a Swedish judge and a leading Indian lawyer, stunned its host by finding in favor of the U.S. (TIME, June...
...purchase of Fanny had been reported to the Commission, it recommended prosecution to the Attorney General's office. Made up of three clergymen, a high school principle, a police chief, and a newspaper publisher, the Commission is chaired by Joseph Zabriskie, who insists that the "rank-and-file in the state" endorse its efforts to seek out obscene literature which is alien to prevailing community standards...