Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remained the same as it was under the Eisenhower Administration: to deliver the nuclear deterrent that is still the keystone of U.S. defense. That deterrent now rings the world, includes three U.S. bases containing 27 Atlas intercontinental missile sites and 73 manned-bomber sites in the U.S., plus a network of overseas bomber bases and five European bases for intermediate-range nuclear missiles. To make this deterrent even stronger, President Kennedy wants to give the Air Force another $86 million to retain two or three air wings of medium-range B-47 bombers (which had been marked for deactivation...
...water is the people." To knit the villages together, give them some sense of contact with Saigon; villagers will be equipped with radio transmitters to permit fast report to headquarters when guerrillas attack. Diem's growing Youth Corps is being trained to run the transmitters, act as an intelligence network throughout the country...
...have survived and thrived. Rice exports have quadrupled and currency reserves are at a record level. To Diem's credit is a successful land-reform program, lower rents for peasants, a boom in light industry; with the help of almost $2 billion in U.S. aid, he has built a network of roads, irrigation projects, power plants and rail lines...
Another brother, a short, fortyish bachelor named Ngo Dinh Can, controls central Viet Nam from the family's hometown of Hué. He has his own network of secret police, holds sway over the government's provincial chiefs in the region. Reputedly owner of vast tracts of land, he is wealthy, contributed heavily to the construction of a new cathedral in Hue where Brother Ngo Dinh Thuc is now Archbishop...
...York Herald Tribune dismissed the exchange as "all puff and no pith," but ABC was-and is-happy. Says Network News Vice President James C. Hagerty, who signed Lisa to a one-year contract in May: "She works like a beaver. She'll be tops." Not all appraisals are so kind. "This dame has an irresistible urge to talk about herself," says a female rival. Complains Lisa: "I have to fight certain things because I look...