Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifted off the runway at Pleiku in South Viet Nam's Central Highlands last week, the Air Force C-130 Hercules transport acted almost like a frisky jet fighter. With Air Force Major General Burl McLaughlin pushing it along at full power, the craft climbed rapidly to 12,500 ft. before leveling off for the hour-long return flight to Saigon. McLaughlin's desire to gain altitude quickly, a routine precaution among pilots in Viet Nam, was heightened in this case both by the Viet Cong's post-Tef offensive and by the unusual payload that...
...Though Nixon and Wilson had met before, this was their first get-together as President and Prime Minister, and the two got on very well. They are similar in many ways: both are rather homely in looks and style, solid and well-disciplined men, who attain and exercise power by organization and tenacity rather than brilliance or charisma. "The personal chemistry is working," said one participant in the Nixon-Wilson meetings. Nixon pleased his British hosts with several references to the historic "special relationship" between the two countries. The British like to hear that the U.S. still believes there...
...offer several times by telephone. Not only would it have placed Humphrey in one of the new Administration's more conspicuous posts; it would also have provided ample opportunity for political fence mending on company time, as it were. As an added lure, Humphrey was offered veto power over all Democratic appointees to the Nixon Administration in Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, White House and regulatory-agency posts. He was guaranteed a quota of Democrats to place in these jobs. As U.N. Ambassador, he would also have had Nixon's go-ahead to spend whatever time he felt necessary...
Surprisingly, Winthrop's closest competitor has been Dudley House, who shared the top spot until the Lions edged them in a one-point overtime decision. In other contests, however, Winthrop has amply demonstrated its awesome power, crushing both Lowell and Quincy by almost 50 points...
...derives its power to approve or deny proposed air fares from the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. A crucial section of that act, and the one that Youth Fare appeared to violate, specifices: "No air carrier . . . shall make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage or subject any particular person . . . or description of traffic in air transportation to any unjust discrimination . . . " (Italics added...