Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of warheads installed in missiles would not be feasible. Spy satellites can count launch vehicles, but not their contents. Even an inspector on the ground would have to take a missile nose cone apart and physically count the number of warheads inside. Neither side will readily agree to let the other's technical experts get so close to the business end of its nuclear arsenal. By contrast, enforcing a ban on flight tests would be relatively easy. Each side can observe its rival's launches from a distance...
Some recalled the famous statement of Andrew Jackson about an edict by the court of Chief Justice John Marshall: "Mr. Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it." Others, like Speaker John McCormack, who was a defendant in the case before the Supreme Court, felt the situation too serious for excited rhetoric...
Guimarra Vineyards Corp., the state's largest table-grape producer with 10% of the crop, also continues to oppose negotiations adamantly, along with many smaller operators. But the union, buoyed by its initial success, is equally determined. Says Union Counsel Jerome Cohen: "We're not going to let up an inch until we have a contract with every single grower in California." Meanwhile, la huelga and el boicoteo will continue...
Chairman William McChesney Martin of the Federal Reserve Board warned that without the surtax "we cannot succeed" in slowly controlling today's "critically serious" inflation. Sitting at his side, Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy* declared: "The problem is much more difficult than I realized. We can't let this escalate into runaway inflation, and we're very close to that now." If Congress allows the tax to expire, he added, the economy could race far enough out of control to create "the possibility of a serious recession." To prevent that, Secretary Kennedy warned that the Government would...
...narrative moves swiftly. Maintaining an even, detached perspective, Halberstam generates a momentum that carries the reader headlong into the stonewall shock of the book's last sentence. "Then he descended to acknowledge his victory, to talk about the violence and divisiveness, and to let a nation discover in his death what it had never understood or believed about him during his life...