Word: starter
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...Diem's army is badly in need of improved communications, better transportation, more training and equipment, and a decent logistical base. Taylor recommended more radios and helicopters as a starter. He found that the army often does not get U.S. equipment to the right place at the right time. Guns often reach troops without ammunition, or ammunition without guns...
...elections. In his order last week, Kennedy ruled that any acceleration of spending instituted for the Administration's antirecession measures-criticized by many as having been unnecessary in the first place -be "phased out," and that new or expanded programs "be undertaken with caution and deliberation." As a starter, the Administration announced that it will not use $780 million in extra money voted by Congress for bombers and other defense projects; the current buildup, it feels, already gives the U.S. "a nuclear capability several times that of the Soviet Union...
...Megabuck Projects. Parallel to the push for family shelters is the one to defend U.S. private industry. Industrial civil defense is enormously expensive. "It costs megabucks," says Frank Jones of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co., which has buried its vital records as a starter in its own civil defense program. But there is a burgeoning recognition of its worth. Scores of companies now participate eagerly in OCDM seminars, have conducted employee courses in civil defense. Many of the nation's banks have buried their vital microfilmed records for safekeeping. Last month Manhattan's Rockefeller Center announced...
Ohiri's pulled groin has had him limping since Saturday's Amherst game. Definitely not a starter today, he will probably sit out the game altogether in order to be ready for the weekend contest with Columbia...
Slick halfback Emmanuel Boye is limping badly from a charley horse suffered Wednesday. Halfback Tony Davies and right outside Ebenezer Klufio will start, but both will be slowed by the same problem. On the left wing Mike Kramer is nursing a painful ankle injury which makes him an uncertain starter...