Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judas Rat." The odd thing is that, except for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, Galbraith has few complaints about Lyndon Johnson. "He's put all the right things on the plate in his domestic program, and apart from Viet Nam, he's been imaginative and flexible in his foreign policy," he says. Until the war, the two men, both from poor, rural backgrounds, were good friends. "I like him more and more," Galbraith said of the then Vice Pres ident in 1961. "He is genuinely intelligent and wants to do things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith...
...interdicting Communist movement into the South and for overseeing allied patrols into nearby Laos, Lang Vei was defended by some 400 South Vietnamese and Montagnard irregulars and 24 Green Berets, operating out of a deeply dug bunker made of three feet of rein forced concrete and two-inch steel plate, complete with its own ventilation system. As much as any place can be in Viet Nam, it seemed an ideal outpost, immune to artillery attack and so situated that ground troops would form a carpet of corpses if they dared attack up its hillside...
...convivial gimmickry of $100-a-plate dinners and rah-rah cocktail parties, both Democrats and Republicans find it difficult to fill campaign fund quotas without dunning donors. Imaginatively seeking to solve the problem - and dissolve an $80,000 election year deficit - the Massachusetts Republican Party last week put out a picture-and-prose paean to the Bay State entitled Massachusetts - The Anatomy of Quality...
...worth last year). Together, the two lines achieved savings averaging $35 million annually. By merging with the Norfolk & Western, they estimate that they can save another $30 million a year. The merger would create a system every bit as affluent as the Penn Central. It would include the Nickel Plate and the Wabash, already owned by the Norfolk & Western, as well as the Erie Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, and Boston & Maine, which the ICC already has ordered the Norfolk & Western to absorb...
...slated to preside over the Penn Central, fittingly enough, is the man who started the merger trend. It was Saunders, as president of the Norfolk & Western, who arranged for the takeover of the Virginian Railway in 1959 and laid the groundwork for the N. & W. to acquire the Nickel Plate and the Wabash. Born in McDowell, W. Va., Saunders grew up in Bedford, Va., within sight and sound of the N. & W.'s main line through the coal fields. He attended college in the town where the N. & W. has its headquarters. Even after he was graduated from Harvard...