Word: getting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson clearly demonstrated its superiority under normal playing conditions. Navy's practice of slamming every serve and pounding every shot was futile in courts where the ball did not get overheated and make exaggerated rebounds...
...Defense Secretary for six months, moved into his new job last week on the run. An hour after taking over, he reversed McElroy's longstanding policy discouraging press conferences by the Air Force, Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems that McElroy did not get around to-plus an even more urgent need to grasp the military possibilities in space. Gates has a scant year before the Eisenhower Administration runs out of time, but if he only improves Pentagon morale and makes overdue decisions, he will surely qualify for the first team...
...budget will include funds to get the Air Force started on a program to keep part of its nuclear-bomber force on airborne alert at all times until the missile gap is closed...
...strategy sessions. ex-President Harry Truman tried to dodge a possible party-splitting row. Said Truman, when asked if the birth-control controversy would hurt Kennedy's chances: "Why should it? It's a false issue so far as the presidency is concerned. They always get up false issues to break up the Democratic Party before a convention." But, on the hunch that "they" might have a point, his fellow members of the Advisory Council urged creation of a "National Peace Agency," which would study, among other things, "overpopulation, including acceptable methods of dealing with the problems...
...political dynasty founded by Brother Huey, last week slid toward oblivion as the reigning force in Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried to lure all the Long-loving back-country people down...