Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formulate U.S. policy for a Middle East that had been transformed almost beyond recognition in a week of fighting. No fewer than four official panels, including a Cabinet-level subcommittee of the National Security Council, met daily to study the issues. To an astonishing degree, they were breaking fresh ground. For the fact is that until the crisis erupted, the U.S. had no Mideastern policy or contingency plan worthy of the name...
...Eisenhower was pausing to study the knee, Britain's dashing Prince Philip, 46, was scouting the higher ground. On a visit to the fashion-design department at Salford Technical College, Lancashire, the duke's eye fastened disapprovingly upon a miniskirt worn by 18-year-old Lorraine Hillier. "You are not being generous enough," he chided. "Compared with others, you are not showing enough leg." Since her hem was already three inches above the knee, Lorraine could but blush and tee-hee, but later she went solemnly to the heart of the matter: "My boy friend would like them...
...Virginia, as in 15 other states (the number was once as high as 30), there is a law barring white and colored persons from intermarrying. The Lovings could have avoided the sentence simply by leaving the state, but they eventually decided to fight the Virginia antimiscegenation law "on the ground that it was repugnant to the 14th Amendment." In rare unanimity, all nine Supreme Court Justices agreed last week that it was repugnant indeed...
...deliver the principal sermon at St. Paul's services on six feast days of the church calendar-but in effect he be comes year-round pulpit spokesman for Anglicanism's most famous cathedral. Theologically and politically, Sullivan considers himself a middle-of-the-roader on the plausible ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast for the church's faithful. "The ordinary...
...charlatans, headed by P. T. Barnum (Burl Ives), decides to shoot the moon with a rocket ship to be sent up by German Genius Gert Frobe. The pilot: blond, bland Troy Donahue, ideal candidate for the world's first astronaught. Before the plot can get off the ground, two dastardly schemers (Lionel Jeffries and Terry Thomas) bet millions that the trip will fail, then try to sabotage the rocket for insurance. Only after some circuitous antique-automobile and bicycle chases and other mandatory sequences for period comedy does launch time occur-accidentally sending Jeffries and Thomas to the moon...