Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been deeply involved in the conflict between Saigon's independence and Hanoi's drive for hegemony. He has been in almost constant motion in both the policymaking and negotiating phases, remaining unruffled even during the past month's dickerings. "I never pack my bags until we move," Harriman says of his many missions. Last week he once again began packing. "It is 20 years almost to the day," Harriman recalled, "that I went to Paris to take over direction of the Marshall Plan...
...Spot" Strategy. This theory is that you seize and secure an area and then move out from that area, securing ever increasing concentric circles of terrain until the entire country is secure. Unless we had a massive infusion of new troops, such a strategy would take many years and become in effect an enclave strategy, with all of its disadvantages, while the rooting-out process was going on. The military initiative would be largely lost...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was not half so impressed. Along with nearly a thousand other large and small military facilities, Springfield was ordered closed as an economy move; its weapons development and pilot production were to be turned over to other, armories or private companies. Last week with a symbolic burst from four M-14 rifles, one of the last weapons developed at the armory, McNamara's order went into effect...
...ordered private surveys of the 97-acre plant in addition to accepting a $30,000 Government grant for feasibility studies. And they tapped personal contacts. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Chairman Leland Kalmbach talked to a golfing partner, General Electric Vice President Jack Parker, and got a G.E. commitment to move some of its armament operations to Springfield. Now G.E. has leased the armory shops, hired 1,245 people to turn out M-73 and M-85 machine guns. The Ontario Corp. of Muncie, Ind., rented Springfield shops to make airplane parts, and the Philip Hano Corp. of Holyoke was negotiating...
...cops come in. The eight of us sit down on the stairs (which we've made slippery with green soap and water) and lock arms. The big cop says don't make it hard for us or you're gonna get hurt. We do not move. We want to make it clear that the police had to step over more chairs to get our people out. They pull us apart and carry us out, stacking us like cord wood under a tree. The press is here so we are not beaten. As I sit under the tree...