Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles with helicopter procurement and the flow of supplies rest more squarely on the Defense Secretary. The helicopter shortage was a miscalculation-one of the few that can be put at McNamara's door-and the seriousness of the logistics snarl did not become apparent to McNamara until November. A well-founded anecdote has it that when McNamara learned the extent of the difficulty at a Saigon briefing, he also discovered that General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the Pacific commander, had anticipated the trouble in September...
...Maryland, the state's Roman Catholic founders also guaranteed death for anyone "who shall deny the Holy Trinity." Vestiges of that 1649 paradox have hung on ever since, involving Maryland in more church-state lawsuits than any other state in the Union. Nothing, though, quite beats the current snarl that Attorney General Thomas B. Finan calls "the gravest crisis in the administration of criminal law in my experience...
...weren't for the snarl, Sims and the Deacons would not be famous today. It's the gangland reputation, the toothless sneer, that have won the man and his organization front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. As long as Sims maintains the mystique, the American press will do his proselytizing and fund-raising for him. Sims estimates that there are now 50 to 60 Deacon chapters in existence, and it's a cinch that most of these were inspired by newspaper accounts alone. Sims told me, "I don't really like publicity. I'd never talk...
...would be wrong to say that the snarl is only a pose. Sims actually is a little bit sour on the world. "We might not have organized the Deacons if Katzenbach had sent troops to Bogalusa when they were needed," Sims told Wednesday's press audience. "There's gotta...
...Francisco, a similar snarl exists between poverty groups and Democratic Mayor John F. Shelley, who asked, regarding demands that he accept representatives of "the poor": "What if they elect a Communist or a criminal?" Last week the OEO announced the approval of $1,800,000 for the Bay City, but the federal funds will not be handed over until there is greater representation of minorities on Shelley's anti-poverty council...