Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right direction, it also showed how many false moves had been made before. His order reversed his own decision of last year to let the Army keep its space mission and the Von Braun team, also heavily modified Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order of last month that the Air Force would be responsible for space-rocket vehicles. Actually, many thoughtful Army officers were glad to be free of the costly distractions of space to concentrate on overdue modernization of equipment and tactics for atomic-war ground troops...
Grin Returns. Next morning Politico Rockefeller rose like a new day. Into his hotel suite for breakfast came a Wisconsin delegation which left enthusiastically with the word that Rocky probably would be speaking "somewhere" in their state on his return from California and Oregon next month. Several Illinois Republican bigwigs dropped in for a chat, and National Committeeman Morton Hollingsworth observed: "I would have no fears as a Republican if he should be elected...
...their annoyance, Tel Aviv newspapers made wry play with the name of Renault's President Pierre Dreyfus. They incorrectly identified him as the grandson of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who 65 years ago this month was arrested in France on trumped-up charges of treason, in what became (with Emile Zola's help) the classic example of anti-Semitism in the French army of the day. Motormaker Dreyfus said that his stand on the Israeli contract was strictly business. In four years Renault has sold only 3,800 cars in Israel. "It is not possible for us to sell...
...make speeches and hand out toy balloons. Curious Hausa merchants applauded politely, as jabbering loudspeaker trucks moved slowly through the ancient city of Kano. Independence is coming next year to Britain's big West African colony, the most heavily populated country on the continent. And next month, Nigeria (pop. 35.7 million) will choose its first national government...
...sail through the back country in helicopters, festoon the towns with modern banners and posters, and hand out books of matches and other election trinkets by the thousands. Two TV stations-the first in black Africa-will carry Awolowo's campaign cries when they start operating early next month...