Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill, two of Robert Mc-Namara's most controversial canons are that 1) missiles must replace manned bombers as the primary strategic nu clear weapons, and 2) superfluous military installations must be eliminated. Last week, with Congress in recess, the Secretary of Defense took giant steps toward implementing both policies...
...final match that was interrupted for 40 min. by rain; at Forest Hills, N.Y. Ranked No. 3 in the world (behind Australia's Roy Emerson and the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, both of whom were eliminated in the quarter-finals), Santana spent the recess buying 15 pairs of wool socks to wear over his sneakers for better footing on the muddy court, limited Drysdale to one game the rest...
Education, as Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly observed, is the door to the Great Society, and the 89th Congress has been eager to unbolt it. The $1.3 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed just before the Easter recess, stirred great interest among constituents back home, and Congressmen have been even more enthusiastic about the Administration's companion bill, which authorizes new subsidies for colleges and universities. By the time it reached the House floor last week, Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee had more than dou bled the Administration's original request for $260 million...
Actually, Labor can do without any margin at all just now, since Parliament is in recess, and the government will call a by-election before it reconvenes Oct. 26. Dodds represented a working-class Thameside constituency that returned him last fall with a healthy majority of 8,855 votes, and would probably endorse a Laborite again. But thanks to the election of new Conservative Leader Ted Heath, and Labor's harsh anti-inflationary measures, the latest Gallup poll puts the Tories 7% ahead of Labor. There is just a ghost of a chance that a Tory might capture Dodds...
With Maudling at his side, Heath marched into the House of Commons two days later as party leader amid cheers from the Tory benches. Any real encounter with Wilson, however, will have to wait until fall, when Parliament resumes after the recess starting this week...