Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montana...
...good reputation in the Church ... Its widespread introduction would jar against our esthetic sense and some of our more strongly entrenched preconceptions. But we know that we are members of a Church which definitely needs jarring ... If God has chosen this time to dynamite what Bishop Sterling of Montana has called 'Episcopalian respectabilianism,' we know no more terrifyingly effective explosive...
...revenue freight, it carried 45 hand-picked officers and men of the Strategic Air Command and enough communications gear to put them in instant and constant contact with SAC bases around the world. Ranging from the deserts of Nevada to the plains of Wyoming and the mountain country of Montana, they shook down the train that in three years will be operating over 100,000 miles of U.S. rails with the Air Force's second-generation, solid-fuel, 6,300-mile Minuteman missiles and launchers. Train-borne and mobile, Minuteman will be virtually invulnerable to enemy attack...
...Montana's Democrats bypassed retiring Senator James E. Murray's hand-picked successor, selected Congressman Lee Metcalf as their nominee for Murray's Senate seat. In the Republican primary, former Congressman Orvin B. Fjare was chosen to oppose Metcalf in a tight battle in November...
...angrily blamed the summit crisis on Administration bungling of the U-2 affair. Desperately, Johnson tried to keep the party peace ("This is definitely a time for America to unite"), but a partisan murmuration had already begun. Leading the rebel yell was Johnson's own majority whip, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who predicted a congressional investigation. "At the proper time," Mansfield promised, "we shall find out what lies beneath the confusing zigzags of official pronouncements of the past fortnight...