Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson extended his "warmest wishes" and hinted at quick recognition. All this was in line with the policy laid down by Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann (TIME cover, Jan. 31) that the U.S. will deal with such situations as occurred in Brazil on their merits, not according to a rigid doctrine that condemns all coups as evil...
...deeply in trouble that only Crown Prince Feisal, as his able longtime Premier, could bail him out. Then, when the immediate difficulty blew over, Saud sought to resume absolute power and cancel Feisal's cautious reforms. Just three months ago, Saud attempted a quick military grab (TIME, Jan. 3), which fizzled when he could not even trust the royal guard to back...
...Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., 57, new U.S. Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC), succeeds retiring Admiral Harry Donald Felt (TIME cover, Jan. 6, 1961) as chief of the largest military command in the world, spanning 85 million square miles and including the hot war in South Viet Nam. In midshipman days, quiet-spoken Admiral Sharp was tagged with the nickname Ole and he still carries it-along with a reputation as "the old-shoe admiral." But, says one fellow officer, "he has a voluminous memory, a mind like a sponge" and, when provoked, "can really explode." His specialty: providing...
Crystals on Demand. As the pulling and hauling dragged on day after day, Treasury officials finally decided to call a halt. A mere 3,000,000 silver dollars were left in the vaults (out of 28 million on Jan. 1), and Secretary Douglas Dillon let it be known that the Treasury would take its time about deciding what to do with the cartwheels that remained. Possible alternatives: melt them down, auction them off to dealers and collectors, put price tags on them and sell them over the counter, or put the whole thing up to Congress...
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