Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more records for hot controversy than cold cash. Air Force and Navy brass bridled at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's 1961 decision to build a single all-purpose TFX, as it was then called, for both services. When General Dynamics Corp.'s design got the nod over Boeing's, the bickering grew louder-and helped ease the Chief of Naval Operations out of his job. Congress, too, filled the air with investigations over what critics called "the flying Edsel." So cloudy were the F-111's skies that even last year General Dynamics President Roger Lewis...
Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...
...chaperon to make sure they have arrived, call again at 10 o'clock to make sure that the dance has concluded and the girls are coming home. Other groups will walk together for hours, transistor radios swinging close to the sidewalk. They go by younger friends with a nod and older, rat, boys with a toss of the head. Perhaps they will meet next week at a dance. No one but a colleege boy does much dating, and he dates girls from outside the North...
...virtue of the congressional seniority system, the hardworking, clear-thinking Arizonan-who recently celebrated his 55th anniversary* on Capitol Hill-occupies three of the most venerable and strategic posts in the Senate: president pro tem, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, dispenser of Democratic patronage. With little more than a nod, he can-and often has-secured federal funds and projects for the arid sections of the West, particularly his own state. Notes one Senate veteran: "He can do more for Arizona in three months than his successor will be able to do in ten years...
...announcement comes in "several months' " time, it will almost have to be yes. Meanwhile, Johnson all but gave the nod to Hubert Humphrey as his running mate. "I have never known a public servant that 1 worked better with, or for whom I had more admiration, or who I thought was more entitled to the public trust than the Vice President," said Johnson. "I felt that way when 1 asked the convention in Atlantic City to select him, and I feel even stronger about it today...