Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, President Johnson played it cool, continued quietly about the business of rounding up domestic support for his Viet Nam policies. He invited dozens of previously critical newsmen and Congressmen into the oval office for visits that sometimes ran for three hours or more, persuaded impressive numbers of them that his way is the right one. Sympathetic Congressmen were quietly advised by White House aides that the State Department was only too ready to crank out Viet Nam speeches for them to deliver. In a series of White House receptions for members of Congress and their wives, the President invariably...
...University of Texas in 1935, then returned to Peru, where he designed private homes, started a magazine called El Arquitecto Peruano, and signed on as a government public-housing consultant. "I was interested in politics," he says, "but purely from the professional point of view." In 1945 he ran for the Chamber of Deputies, won a seat from Lima and quickly made a name for himself fighting for low-cost public housing...
After its big boom in Georgia, the U.S. space program ran afoul of a fizzle in Florida. At Cape Kennedy the three liquid-fuel motors of an Atlas-Centaur rocket ignited on schedule, but the missile that was supposed to toss a dummy Surveyor (soft-landing vehicle) to the moon's orbit, climbed only a few feet before a valve misfunctioned and the rocket fell back on its pad. Thin-walled fuel tanks ruptured, and more than 100 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene burst into flames. The hydrogen-burning second stage added tons of liquid hydrogen...
...Justice Hugo Black was aghast at the decision. In a dissent that ran longer than the majority opinion, Black saw Congress usurping the jury system that he reveres. Congress can "create crimes," said Black, but the Constitution empowers judges or juries to decide the facts "on their own judgment without legislative restraint." As for personal experience, drawled Black from the bench, "I come from a part of the country where now and then they had some stills, but I never thought that if I was unlucky enough to be caught around there, hunting birds or something, my presence would...
...feeling was most apparent in the millions of U.S. stores and factories, where the everyday indicators of economic performance were pointing up. Auto sales in mid-February ran 19% above the high levels of a year ago, and automakers talked increasingly of a 9,000,000-car year. Steel production reached an alltime high-2,757,000 tons in a week. Though steel and autos will almost certainly ease off from those record rates, there are many other muscular forces in the economy. Last week gains were reported in building permits, manufacturing orders, retail sales, personal income, employment, profits, dividends...