Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade...
Shakespeare festivals are still a mainstay of summer theater, but more and more the Bard's works are blended with a touch of contemporary...
...parties, and announced the formation of a three-man junta. It is headed by Provisional President Juan Carlos Onganía, Illia's one-time army commander in chief who, until his resignation last November, was considered his country's guardian of constitutional government and the military mainstay that kept Illia in power...
...track coaches selected Chris Pardee, Tony Lynch, and Trey Burns for the team's annual Improvement Awards. Ron Wilson, Harvard's mainstay in the field events, copped the Sam Felton and Little Shotput Awards...
...medicine is now recognizing that the general practitioner fills a need that is not being met. He tends to serve in rural areas, and to be the mainstay of the poor and the slum dweller, who cannot afford the several specialists many families now have for their varied ills. Most of all, the family doctor, available in greater numbers, would help restore the oldtime warmth to the doctor-patient relationship...