Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resignation as a special presidential consultant this month, Johnson has little or no rapport with the intellectual community. The President's strained relations with Big Labor's top brass were all too evident at his pilgrimage to Detroit on Labor Day -though there was no lack of rank-and-file palms admiringly outstretched for Johnson's benison along the motorcade route into town...
...bitter, unsuccessful struggle with Teddy Kennedy for the senatorial nomination in 1962. In the primary, McCormack easily defeated Kenny O'Donnell, 42, one of John Kennedy's top White House political experts, who had never before run for office himself and was little known to rank-and-file voters. It will be a different story when McCormack takes on Volpe...
Learning that some right-wing officers were scheming to bring Wessin back, Balaguer denounced the plot on television, though carefully absolving Wessin of any complicity. He then appointed Wessin an alternate Dominican delegate to the U.N. with the rank of ambassador, and ordered Wessin's old autonomous outfit at San Isidro airbase to be divided among other units throughout the country. Furthermore, Balaguer ordered a reorganization of the military so that "the barracks can no longer be used as a springboard" for political activities. So far, the military has accepted the President's orders without any visible signs...
...Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade salute...
...reason has to do partly with the fatigue of 20 years of war, partly with French colonial policy, which promoted few Vietnamese to officer rank, and partly with the flimsy framework of new nationhood. Even after the French left, there was a shortage of nearly everything needed for a good army: buildings, bases, firing ranges, leadership, esprit. Loyalties continued to go to family rather than the new nation...