Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government's goal is to prevent waste and disorder," Weaver enumerates uncritically federal programs to aid cities, and calls for "better organization of urban governments." He is, of course, selling the program which he heads, and he confines his generalization to purposes rather than effects, which is always safer ground...
...Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground fire, only one plane was lost; the pilot was rescued...
Other Moves. Even as he ordered the air strikes against North Viet Nam, President Johnson took other actions aimed at convincing the Communists that the U.S. really means business in Viet Nam. For one thing, he ordered an Okinawa-based battalion of 550 Marines armed with 54 Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Danang to protect scores of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip on aprons. The Hawk is a killer at up to 45,000 ft. and at a distance of 22 miles, homes in on enemy aircraft by radar. The dispatch of the Hawks was merely an extra precaution...
...social stratification or by personality," cites "nuclear responsibility" and "social welfare legislation" as the decisive issues in addition to civil rights. "Goldwater's positions on national issues, clearly documented in his past statements and publications, proved to be an insurmountable obstacle to his campaign ever getting off the ground...
...Dick Mayer took home the bacon. Finally, with Lloyd's out $113,200 and the tournament sponsors out $36,800 in premiums, the whole thing was called off. Not that Lloyd's was chicken, of course: if they can figure out some new ground rules, they may try again next year...