Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There in the Hudson River off Manhattan lay the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest (at 83,673 tons) ocean liner. Not a tugboat was on hand to ease her 1,031-ft. length into her narrow slip at 52nd Street because the tugs' crews were on strike. What to do? In she goes, commanded Captain Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr, 57, and with infinite care, using hawsers and anchors and great good seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide...
...ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as President a third Somoza, chubby ex-General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Jr., 41, the opposition tried its best to trigger a coup d'etat. The result was riot and death for Nicaraguans and a narrow escape for a handful of foreigners...
Once Moyers is gone, who-if anyone-will become the new primus"? Actually, it may take months for a successor to surface. When he does, he will almost certainly be a versatile, nimble-witted "generalist" rather than a narrow specialist. Johnson, as one aide puts it, likes men who can "go where the ball is." They serve him as a headquarters staff, husbanding his time and refining ideas for his easier digestion...
...Threatened Planet." Johnson devoted the last half of his speech to a conciliatory report on foreign policy. "We are in the midst of a great transition," he said, "a transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership, from the harsh spirit of the cold war to the hopeful spirit of common humanity on a troubled and a threatened planet." He spoke hopefully about U.S.-Soviet relations: "We have avoided both the acts and the rhetoric of the cold war; when we have differed with the Soviet Union, or other nations for that matter, I tried to differ quietly and with courtesy...
...Seeking a $200 million supplemental appropriation for SST design work last August, the White House anticipated routine approval. Instead, Wisconsin's William Proxmire led an attack on the project, damned it as "a jet-set frill," finally wound up on the short end of a vote more narrow than anyone expected. Voting with Proxmire, among others, were both Robert and Teddy Kennedy-despite the fact that their brother had been the one who put the U.S. into the SST race in the first place...