Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of the Viet Nam war-a sense of anticlimax swept the U.S. Considering that the President had assembled a score of top aides and hauled them 8,700 miles to a remote rock in the western Pacific, spending more time in the air (36 hours) than on the ground (31 hours), it was only natural that the nation should expect dramatic results. There were none. Johnson simply reaffirmed his determination to stand fast in Viet Nam until Hanoi is ready to talk. And judging from Ho Chi Minh's envenomed rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal, Hanoi...
...could not have been an easy situation for anyone concerned. While Sanchez worked in his second-floor office of La Fortaleza, the Governor's mansion, with Jeannette near by, his wife occupied a ground-floor office almost directly underneath, where she held court as the commonwealth's first lady. As the romance blossomed, so did Jeannette's governmental duties. Before she resigned, she not only acted as the Governor's assistant but also headed the Department of State, the protocol section, the Institute of Culture and press relations...
...ground war in Viet Nam is intensifying, with mounting casualties on both sides. Aided by a sudden infusion of mortars and fresh weapons, and often impelled by a growing sense of desperation, the Viet Cong have turned more aggressive in the hope of scoring some badly needed victories. With the increase in the U.S. troop levels-which last week reached 427,000-more Americans are ranging through the countryside than ever before, spoiling for a fight. The war's vicious turn was reflected last week in two sets of statistics...
...only one segment of the FAA's 350,000-mile network of federal airways, freeways of the sky that are complete with aerial versions of warning signs, access roads, directional guides and even parking places?the holding areas in the vicinity of busy airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel as it passes overhead, to huge...
...passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja had actually been Mrs. Alcorta's "lover and paramour"-a vital fact of which Prosecutor Hubert W. Green Jr. was fully aware. In 1958 Green was named Texas' Outstanding Prosecutor...