Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together out of the parts and pieces of old projects. The mongrelized missile is aptly named Hound Dog. It has real bite. As the U.S.'s first effective plane-launched, jet-propelled air-to-ground missile, Hound Dog adds range and firepower to 1960's most potent operational weapon, the intercontinental B-52s of the Strategic Air Command...
...Angeles convention-if he hasn't already lost the race in West Virginia. If Kennedy falters, Johnson is prepared to make an end run at the convention (Candidates Symington and Humphrey don't even figure in the calculations). Again, like the other hopefuls, he has a potent candidate for Vice President: Jack Kennedy. "I can see it now," says an aide. "He'll be standing there in the hotel room after the nomination, and he'll say, 'We want that boy for Vice President. Go get him for me!' " Is Johnson likely...
...without any stockpile of A-bombs of his own, De Gaulle repeated his proposal that all nuclear weapons should be destroyed and forsworn by everyone. Apparently, he is undeterred by the probability that the destruction of atomic weapons would simply restore military primacy to the nation with the most potent conventional armed forces. Staunchly convinced that Europe's future depends upon the close collaboration of France with Germany, he gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan little sympathy in his plea for a showdown in establishment of the Common Market...
From his father, Paul inherited Roman citizenship, the most potent status sym bol of those days, but he was also raised as a strict Pharisee, a member of the intellectual and spiritual elite of Judaism...
Thus, the U.S. has a potent weapon to reward its friends and punish its enemies, a weapon that more than balances the problematical gains that might be had by abolishing the quotas altogether...