Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planes & Missiles. To placate his opponents, McNamara has used some of his precious time to learn statesmanship. Before he announced plans last week to create a new, highly trained 145,000-man Army backup force from existing Army Reserve and National Guard units, he conferred respectfully with Hebert's subcommittee, asked and got its approval-even though the new force will have almost the same effect as his previously rejected proposal to merge the Army Reserve and National Guard...
...industrial equipment, trucks, and anything else they can find, and graft them onto other machines. Cubana Airlines has three four-engined Bristol Britannias at Havana airport. Often just one flies; the other two supply the spare parts. The few cars on Havana streets are rolling junk heaps - but precious junkheaps. "I could sell this thing for $1,400," boasts the proud owner of a broken-down 1948 Kaiser. When Havana's old General Motors buses finally began to give out, Castro imported a flashy new fleet from Czechoslovakia and Hungary. They could not take the heat. Early this year...
...complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope John would feel about his council "wasting month after precious month over such trivialities as concelebration, or Communion in both kinds, or new definitions about Our Lady...
...hard-pressed Wilson now would have to give up one of the precious pair by installing his own man as Speaker unless he could talk the Tories or the Liberals into supplying a candidate for the job. The Tories are not likely to volunteer readily, for they would like nothing better than to see how adept Wilson is at one-upmanship when the House reassembles in October...
...Howard smoothly snares German Deserter Marlon Brando into agreeing to a perilous bit of World War II secret agentry. He must find and disarm the demolition charges placed on a German freighter, so that in the event of Allied capture, the Germans will not be able to scuttle their precious rubber cargo. Equipped with forged Nazi credentials and the suavest German accent since Erich von Stroheim. Brando climbs aboard the freighter, captained by Yul Brynner, and loses no time in going on the prowl...