Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vessel. Some top admirals of the U.S. Navy carry this quality to shorebound duties in the Pentagon. But nowadays they are questioned by an equally authoritarian operator, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. And right in the middle of these collision-bound forces sits a string bean of a Texan who holds down one of the most impossible jobs in Washington: Navy Secretary Fred Korth...
...weeks, witnesses in an El Paso federal courtroom testified about charges of mail fraud and conspiracy against West Texan Billie Sol Estes. Then, for another 50 hours, a jury of two women and ten men (four Negroes) considered the fate of the fertilizer king whose vast, partly imaginary agricultural empire caused national scandal last year. Once, the jurors reported that they were deadlocked. But District Judge Robert E. Thomason refused to declare a hung jury, sent the twelve back to their deliberations with the admonition that "some jury, some time, will have to make a decision in this case...
...Cadillac staggers a sweltering Texan and collapses in his living room. "Why didn't you roll down the car window, silly?" asks his wife. "What," he says, "and let everyone know I don't have an air-conditioned...
...Mets have nowhere to go but up, the Houston Colts are likely cellar occupants. Fleet Manny Mota and Dave Roberts should provide some punch, but the team stands to lose (except at the gate) in trading slugger Roman Mejias for Texan Pete Runnells...
...Countdown. If a coded war message came through, Captain Paul L. Lacy Jr., a 42-year-old Texan, and his executive officer would open a safe in the presence of still a third officer. The captain and the exec carry different keys, and it requires both keys to open the safe. Inside the safe the officers would find specific orders, keyed to the coded message...