Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most serious deficiency he discovered was the lack of equipment to destroy classified documents and secret electronic gear. Bucher tried repeatedly to obtain a destruct system for the electronics snooping devices, but his requests were turned down by the Navy. Instead, Pueblo was-issued fire axes and sledgehammers...
...police of the ransom dropoff, two officers responded to the call. They spotted what appeared to be two men, one carrying a duffle bag, the other a suitcase and a carbine. At the appearance of the police, the two dropped everything and escaped. The duffle bag contained scuba diving gear. In the suitcase was Mackle...
False Deacon. Despite the bungling of the ransom delivery, the police and FBI now had an important clue. A blue Volvo parked near by-and containing scuba gear-was found to be registered to one George D. Deacon, 28, a research technician at the Institute of Marine Science across the bay. It was from the Institute that the Boston Whaler had been stolen earlier that night...
...Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth hat are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined...
...virtues of an austere spending program and the vices of cooking the books, he found a receptive audience. Of course, one comfortable talk does not necessarily ensure protracted harmony between a Republican President and a Democratic Congress. Mills, for instance, still opposes Nixon's proposal to gear increases in social security benefits to rises in the cost of living. At least three other areas of dispute are already discernible...