Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will be a special security problem in Berlin. The city's Free University is the center of youthful opposition to the Bonn regime and to continued U.S. influence in Germany. Last week left-wing students there denounced Nixon as "the shifty agent of the most reactionary kind of American bourgeois society" and resolved to demonstrate against him. Most of West Berlin's 20,000-man police force-including 5,000 reservists-will be turned out during Nixon's three-hour stay...
...head of a special congressional committee investigating private and public agencies that purport to protect the consumer, New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal took special interest in the Good Housekeeping seal...
...week's end another of Garrison's witnesses backfired. Special FBI Agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt testified that he had minutely examined the Zapruder film, as well as enlarged prints of the fatal shot that shattered Kennedy's head. Asked Defense Attorney Dymond: "Based on your examination, have you found any photographic evidence to indicate that the shots that hit President Kennedy came from any direction other than his right rear?" Replied Shaneyfelt...
Acid Test's deep freeze was a special nightmare for supply officers. Gasoline, for transport and collapsible Yukon stoves, had first priority, far ahead of ammunition. Next came rations: each infantryman must tuck in a formidable 5,000 calories of food a day to replace heat lost by his body. Water was another life-or-death commodity. Ski troopers in the desertlike dry cold require between three and five quarts of water daily. While equipment designers have achieved some success in producing insulated canteens and tanks to transport water into the field, the delay caused by a flat tire...
Next month Stevenson and his reform friends are carrying the battle to Chicago, where a special election is being held to fill six vacancies on the 50-man city council. Independent Democrats will challenge machine-backed candidates in five of the six races. They have reasonable hopes of winning two seats, with Fred Hubbard, 39, a black youth worker running in a largely Negro ward, and William Singer, 28, a lawyer who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and is running in a well-to-do Near North Side ward...