Word: near
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whenever Ike wants us near...
...rest of his busy, 13-day schedule in the U.S. Highlights: two banquets in New York on Sept. 17; an address the next day to the U.N. General Assembly; a luncheon in Hollywood, complete with stars and starlets; sightseeing in San Francisco; a visit to an Iowa corn farm near Des Moines and to the University of Pittsburgh; and two days of conferences with President Eisenhower, possibly at secluded Camp David...
...three completed pads forming the base's Launch Complex 65-1, a twelve-story-high missile nestled in its gantry. Two more of the 200-ton silvery rockets, painted for the first time with the SAC insignia, lay in reserve, their H-bomb war heads stored near by, ready for installation in brief minutes. After five test flops followed by four successes in a row at Cape Canaveral, the U.S.'s prime weapon of deterrence seemed ready at last to serve Vandenberg's twin functions as an operational base for the launching of ICBMs against an enemy...
Since Congress has refused to pass a requested $350 million increase in postal rates and to cut down farm price supports, only better-than-hoped-for expansion in business can raise tax revenues to keep the 1960 budget at or near balance. So Staats sternly opposed annual slices of $15.5 million to $22 million proposed for health benefits to retired federal workers...
...author's delight in being oracular does not detract much from a clever investigation into mysticism and the mystique of power. The ironic Artist Tutmose-whose hauntingly beautiful head of Nefertiti is on view in West Berlin's Dahlem Museum-solves only part of the puzzle when, near the book's end, he concludes that "beyond our own motives, existence has no reason." Perhaps, Stacton seems to be saying, the puzzle of existence constitutes its own reason...