Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate challenge to the stability of the dollar and the ability of the U.S. Government to defend it. It also gave Lyndon Johnson a new rationale to exert extra pressure for his proposed surcharge on income taxes. He lost no time trying, but he quickly discovered that what may strike him as imperative may strike Congress in quite a different...
Despite his erratic track record on Vietnam, McNamara probably did more to illuminate publicly the complex strategic problems of the nuclear age than any American official since 1945. He demonstrated with compelling logic and eloquence the need for a strong "second-strike" nuclear capability--and noted, with accuracy, the need for forces to fight non-nuclear wars once it was clear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. could not longer use nuclear weapons against each other without risking mutual destruction...
...Similar logic, according to Adam Yarmolinsky '43, his former top aide, McNamara recently backed the development of a "thin" anti-ballistic missile system to protect the Chinese,--who lacking a "second strike" or "comeback" nuclear capability, are more likely than America or Russia to use nuclear weapons rashly...
...Beginning of five-day hunger strike protesting the quota system for allowing seniors to have their own apartments. Twenty-seven Cliffies fast to demand that all seniors have option to live in non-college housing...
...newspaper but a "commodity" (sort of like a cantelope perhaps?). Since it was a commodity, the City Manager has the authority to issue a permit to distribute or not to issue such a permit depending on his general frame of mind or any whim that may strike him. Not only need there be no hearing or other due process of law, but he need not even express or indeed have any reason for his action, according to the City Manager. Mr. DeGuglielmo was conspicuously unimpressed by the suggestion that this "commodity" (he seemed to view it as sort...