Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bases containing 27 Atlas intercontinental missile sites and 73 manned-bomber sites in the U.S., plus a network of overseas bomber bases and five European bases for intermediate-range nuclear missiles. To make this deterrent even stronger, President Kennedy wants to give the Air Force another $86 million to retain two or three air wings of medium-range B-47 bombers (which had been marked for deactivation). In addition, the new proposals will speed up the program to put half of SAC's bombers on 15-minute ground alert...
...rear decks. The Dart has abandoned its curly rear fin for an unadorned, clean rear-fender line, has changed its concave grille to a flat one with a forward thrust. The pizazz model, Polara, will come out only in two-door hardtop and convertible models. Both Dodge and Plymouth retain their 1961 engines but will seem a lot livelier because they are 300-400 lbs. lighter. Plymouth's Valiant now becomes Chrysler's Valiant, gets only a few physical changes: an end to the simulated rear spare "donut" wheel, wider bands of chrome and round, flush taillights instead...
...Tory right wing is anti-Common Market, believing Britain is still physically powerful enough to go it alone as a great power; e.g., they regret the abortive Suez invasion only as a failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought...
Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
...community occupying the fairest part of the earth, comprising the most intelligent, hardworking people in the world-and far better able to help the Commonwealth and supply capital and know-how to underdeveloped countries." On the other hand, if Britain stayed out, Birch warned, it would not long retain what Britons like to regard as their first-friend-and-counselor role with the U.S. "As the relative power of the Six and ourselves changes, so will our special position with the U.S. tend to decline...