Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signatures of support in preparation for the May 28 primary, which would have been Rockefeller's most promising confrontation with Nixon. McCall had even cranked out press releases warmly praising the New Yorker for his entry into the race. Gloomed a McCall aide: "Now Ym using them for scratch paper...
...problems. By waiting for repeal of a 1945 law requiring a 25% gold backing for the currency, the U.S. could muster another $10.4 billion of gold for the defense of the dollar abroad. By discomfitingly small margins, the measure squeaked through Congress just in time. Last week, as the scratch of President Johnson's pen abolished the gold cover, the depleted U.S. gold stock just equaled the required...
Gift Horse. Still, the then Vice President apparently had time to scratch for a piece of the limelight by coming through Mrs. Lincoln's White House office nearly every day, then on to the reception room, where newsmen could see him and assume he had just emerged from consultations with Kennedy. "Does he use this door very often? What is he doing in these offices?" she quotes J.F.K. Johnson, she says, asked her: "Be a good girl and see that I get invited to all the meetings in the White House." She observes that he wasn't, noting...
Russian Marines. Admiral Gorshkov s ships are not only wide-ranging but among the world's newest and best equipped. Unlike the U.S. and Britain, both of which emerged from World War II with large surface fleets, Russia had to start practically from scratch after the war. The result: while 60% of the U.S. fleet consists of ships 25 years old or older, the Soviet navy's sur face fleet is sleek and modern. "Almost every time you go into a harbor," says U.S. Navy Captain Harry Allendorfer, an expert on Soviet seapower, "if there are no flag markings...
There has been without doubt a very real desire for growth in the Peace Corps, for any economist will note that 14,000 Volunteers will hardly scratch the surface of the problems between present and peace. One thousand Volunteers in India are too few for final solutions; therefore they aim at "confrontation rather than solution." Yet on a proportionate per capita basis, Botswana would merit only two Volunteers rather than the eighty British and American Volunteers it now requests and uses. Thus a concern for growth is a function of a quest for impact: if peace is at issue, impact...