Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other words, a top Defense Department official explained, the U.S. is becoming impatient with the rest of NATO and finds its most effective partner for European defense in West Germany. "Under no circumstances," he said, "must we back away from our buildup in Europe. The Russians are only taking the road they have on the test ban because the pressure has been kept on them. We must keep up that pressure. Any reduction or slowdown would be disastrous...
...statement proved somewhat exaggerated. But if Lisbon's sprawling, 500-year-old African outback wasn't being liquidated last week, it was certainly under siege-together with its neighbor and partner, South Africa. Having called the Security Council into session, the 32-nation African bloc demanded that 1) Portugal get out of her colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, and 2) the world help throttle South Africa's apartheid regime. Behind both demands lay a deeper motive: to eliminate the last strongholds of white rule on the Dark Continent...
Married. Mamie Spears Reynolds, 20, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator Robert Reynolds, who at four inherited $10 million from her grandmother Evalyn Walsh McLean;* and Luigi Chinetti Jr., 20, partner with his father, a onetime auto racer, in the U.S. Ferrari franchise; in Manhattan...
Died. George Whitney, 77, financier, knowledgeable partner of J. P. Morgan between the wars and first president of J. P. Morgan, Inc. from 1940 to 1950, a polished Bostonian who came out of investigations into the stock market crash with a clean slate (unlike his brother Richard, former president of the Stock Exchange, who was convicted of embezzlement), after World War II started Morgan on diversification that led to its 1959 merger with Guaranty Trust; of a pulmonary emphysema (see MEDICINE); in Manhattan...
...Yahoo!" the wing-mustached old saddle tramp yelled, reining up in the startled dude resort of Warbag, Colo. "I'm Scandalous John McCanless, and I've got the prettiest daughter, the fastest horse, and the ugliest partner in the district, and I'm a ring-tailed screamer lookin' for a fight...