Word: grounds
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...more than Pollyannish optimism. Soon after Johnson took office, Rostow (then a top State Department policy planner) said flatly: "Viet Nam is Johnson's Cuba; it will make him or break him." As one of the Administration's toughest-talking hawks, he began urging heavy commitments of ground troops early in Kennedy's tenure-nearly four years before Johnson actually made the decision in 1965. In a town where appraisals of a situation's dangers often spell delay, Rostow looks for answers to national questions through action based on the best available information, tries...
...Frank O'Connor, 56, New York City Council president, became the fourth Democrat to seek his party's blessing to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term in November. An unofficial favorite for the nomination last winter, O'Connor has since lost ground but still has strong organization support. His chances for the nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick...
...choice of Brioni as the site of the purge. Both Ranković and Stefanović are Serbians-the dominant race in Yugoslavia's six-nation mix*-and Belgrade itself is the old Serb capital. Tito may well have feared that by denouncing Ranković on his home ground, he might trigger a Serb uprising...
...right was first extended to less solid property in 1741, when Poet Alexander Pope sued to prevent publication of certain letters of his that had fallen into a bookseller's hands, claiming that they were still his property. Pope was upheld-not on the ground of any right to privacy but rather that his property rights had been violated. Among other things, the ruling touched on the important right to refuse to communicate-or to choose with whom one will communicate...
...then be used again in the same flight to hurl the spaceship toward the moon. The trouble is, its virtues are not bought cheaply. Its extreme volatility and the - 423° F. temperature necessary to keep it in liquid form make it difficult to deal with both on the ground and in space. NASA spacemen had theorized that once weightless in orbit, liquid hydrogen would scatter around its fuel tank in an uneven mixture of liquid and gas. And unless liquid hydrogen can be kept at the bottom of the tank, it cannot reach the valves through which...