Word: ironclads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither proved to have an ironclad alibi for the day. Sacco, a worker in a shoe factory, had taken the day off to go to Boston and get a passport for his trip to Italy. Vanzetti was a fish-peddler and could only rely on the word of his customers for an alibi...
...airlines, ten railroads, one shipping firm and a group of truckers chipped in with equipment and manpower-tax deductible at out-of-pocket cost. Even then, with the full ransom in hand or pledged, and with fast transportation assured, the whole effort almost fell apart. For Castro insisted on ironclad guarantees that he could collect cash for any goods not delivered, once the prisoners were set free. This meant a $53 million performance bond. Katzenbach flew to Montreal to seek such a bond from the Royal Bank of Canada, which has a representative in Cuba. "It was zero-zero," recalls...
Even with inspection, disarmament would be risky. According to President Kennedy's scientific adviser, Jerome B. Wiesner, the best that can be achieved is a combination of inspection techniques that would produce an "adequate likelihood" of detecting violations. For example, even if ironclad controls were accepted by each nation - inspection of such things as plant output records, manpower, ore supply and electricity consumption - could anyone be sure a would-be cheater had not hidden a stockpile of undeclared H-bombs? Even with all this data, experts estimate they might miscalculate a nation's supply to the extent...
...There have been three U.S. Navy ships named Texas. The first was an ironclad ram captured from the Confederates in 1865 at the jail of Richmond. The second Texas took part in the Spanish-American War. In 1921 she was used as a target in Chesapeake Bay in Billy Mitchell's effort to show that a plane could sink a ship, and it is in Chesapeake Bay that she still lies. The third Texas, a veteran of World Wars I and II, was towed from Norfolk to Texas in 1948, where she has become a historical shrine near Houston...
...Nice Boys." Baxter prepped for the Williams presidency at Harvard, where his Ph.D. thesis disproved the idea that the Monitor and the Merrimac were the world's first ironclad ships (the first: France's Gloire in 1859). When he became Master of the newly opened Adams House, Baxter learned the art of running a college. The chance came in 1937 when Williams President Tyler Dennett quit after only three years (he thought the trustees were wasting money). It was Dennett who summed up one of Baxter's main problems: "Nice boys-I mean the well-mannered, sophisticated...