Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK, Jan. 11--More than 100 ships lay idle today in ports from Maine to Texas, marooned by a $20 million-a-day strike of 60,000 East and Gulf Coast longshoremen...
Prosecuting Attorney. Trouble seasoned him. When North Vietnamese PT boats twice attacked Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin last summer, there was nothing impetuous about Johnson's response. Like a prosecuting attorney, he kept asking his aides: "Are you sure we were attacked? How come they were such bad shots...
...Gulf of Tonkin was a triumph, it was one of the few for the U.S. in Viet Nam. Unwilling to withdraw and fearful of escalating the war, Johnson has maintained a "more of the same" policy that pleases almost nobody and makes less sense with the passing of each day. All the while, the Saigon government has been stumbling from coup to coup. In the latest unhappy episode, the U.S. and the Vietnamese approached a parting of the ways. The U.S. was insistent about trying to sustain a group of civilian politicians against overthrow by a junta of disgusted young...
Throughout his career, Wasserman has enjoyed a viewpoint nicely balanced between business and show business. He bridges the large gulf between the accountant and the tousled genius. He can figure a budget within 5%, and when he gets it figured, he knows what the money is being spent on. He began learning his business during his boyhood as a movie theater usher in C'eveland, and at 21 he became vice president for advertising and promotion at a nightclub called the Mayfair Casino. The bands who played there were booked in by MCA, which then literally was the Music...
...Bureau of Ships, where John Nachtsheim ('47) is chief naval architect. J. J. Henry ('35) heads his own top firm, lately designed the naval icebreaker Glacier, and helped develop a fleet of ships to take liquefied gas from Algeria to London and from the Persian Gulf to Tokyo. Several Webb alumni, including John Parkinson ('29), NASA's chief of aerodynamic programs, have switched from designing ships to exploring space...