Word: strengths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy would each be cut by 5,000 men next year. Almost casually, he raised the NATO-jarring prospect of eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker's lap. On his return to Washington, he announced another economy: the second nuclear...
...breathing missile was a sound concept before physicists found out how to fit a nuclear warhead into a ballistic missile. Had the Air Force's air-breathing Snark been pushed to completion on its original schedule three years ago, it could have filled a gap in U.S. air strength. By the time the first (and only) Snark wing was put into operation this year in Maine, Soviet defenses had more than caught up with it. Counting total development costs ($740 million), the Snark is one of the most costly, wings ever formed...
Unsurprisingly, Californian Nixon's greatest strength was in the Midwest and Far West, where he was running 55 to 45 ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front, but in that traditionally Democratic heartland, his margin was close enough to make a Democratic handicapper's hands grow clammy: Nixon, 48%; Kennedy...
...five minutes when his team is only two touchdowns behind-any club can, and may, explode in those five minutes and win. Pro football is a game in which every carefully selected, battle-tried man seems larger than life, not only in skill and speed, but in sheer brute strength...
...since the 19303, when Bronko Nagurski was crumpling lines for the Chicago Bears, have football fans seen such a numbing fullback as the Cleveland Browns' young (23) Jimmy Brown. Magnificently muscled (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.), Brown has a sprinter's speed, strength enough to carry along a brace of tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom...