Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provision would strike at thousands of entrenched white neighborhoods like the Chicago suburb where whites battled Negro marchers this summer. Few Senators are anxious to go on record in support of the bill, and many Negro leaders, who hoped for a much tougher housing clause, maintain that it is so watered down as not to be worth the battle. Though the bill may stay alive for another week or so, it has no hope of passage this year...
...colonel in World War II, subsequent noncombat assignments took him out of the running to be Air Force Chief of Staff. And like many other senior officers, particularly in the Air Force, Schriever had his differences with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Schriever believes that if the U.S. is to maintain its military superiority, it must sometimes gamble large sums on chancy projects. McNamara's philosophy is that the need for expensive new weapons and other equipment must first be objectively proved to his satisfaction. "I have tried and tried," Schriever said recently, "but he won't listen...
Died. Martin W. Clement, 84, president (1935-49) and board chairman (1949-51) of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who handled practically every job on the country's biggest road at one time or another, becoming a happy blend of operating and financial man, which let him maintain the Pennsy's unbroken record of dividend payments throughout the Depression while electrifying the line from New York to Harrisburg; of severe anemia; in Rosemont...
...wanted to write good books, and make money -in that order-and he forever respected and tried to improve his art. As a young writer, he set himself the task of producing 1,000 words a day, and for most of his 40 productive years he somehow managed to maintain that rate...
...Asian lightning bugs maintain their coordinated flashing is "one of the great mysteries of physiology," says Dr. Buck. Once this is fathomed, however, it may lead researchers toward a better understanding of nervous-system mechanisms that allow humans to act in perfect unison...