Word: maneuverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At week's end, while Vietnamese paratroopers moved in to continue the battle and give the torn ranks of the 1st Air Cav a well-earned rest, General William Westmoreland summed up the official American view of the long month that began with the siege at Plei Me: "I...
This time, unfortunately, the long-shot became more than a remote possibility. If it had been successful, Gemini 6 would have been the first demonstration of rendezvous and docking in space-a maneuver that is absolutely essential to any manned mission to the moon. Now the Russians have a second...
The Prince should not have been so surprised. During his Red China visit, he had yielded to the blandishments of his hosts to remark at a state banquet that "it is impossible to defeat the imperialists if one accepts compromise with them"-which in the context of the Sino-Soviet...
Never Again. Confident of getting three more state senators-but not six -on his side, Wallace decided next to challenge the senate's two-thirds majority rule. His supporters petitioned e Alabama Supreme Court to lower the bothersome requirement to three-fifths, or 21 votes. This maneuver was quickly...
Brazil's chief of state is a patient man, but this was too much. In a series of meetings with his top military advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda...