Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill that enraged Congressmen. Both the House and Senate now seem likely to insist that the Guard's strength be kept at 400,000 men-a figure that the Guard now falls below. But this manpower requirement would not prevent McNamara from realigning units as he saw fit, and he would be able to build toward it leisurely and with more effective units...
...Fitting Machines. The A.D.D.L. was born a month ago when a want ad by angry San Francisco Organizer Carl V. May rallied a band of bitter anti-digit men, including famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College. Soon San Francisco lapels were sprouting A.D.D.L. buttons. Polling its readers, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that two-thirds of the ballots were opposed to all-number dialing. Said Hayakawa: "These people are systematically trying to destroy the use of memory. They tell you to 'write it down,' not memorize it. Try writing a telephone number down...
Thus the U.S. evolved not only as a country in which every man could worship God as he saw fit, but also as a country with "a Godly tradition." Unless emotions released by last week's misunderstood decision are strangely perverted, the country will stay that...
...interested in politics, and a mutual friend introduced him to Bailey. As it happened, Bailey desperately needed someone to run for Congressman at large on the ticket with Ribicoff, who was seeking re-election as Governor. Kowalski seemed to fit the bill: he had a good record, no political enemies, and an unmistakably Polish name to appeal to the heavy concentration of Poles in Connecticut's industrial areas. Bailey forced Kowalski on the Democratic convention, and Kowalski won in November. In 1960 he was re-elected with 657,680 votes, the biggest total in state history...
...simple platform that promised to keep i) Negroes down and 2 ) the price of cotton up. He punctuated his Senate speeches with "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding officer's attention. He defeated Johnston in Johnston's first try for the Senate, died in 1944 before he could finish his lame-duck term...