Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sense of Urgency." As Army Chief of Staff from 1955 to 1959, Taylor fought unsuccessfully for a bigger and better-equipped Army, finally quit in frustration, and poured his theories into an outspoken book he called The Uncertain Trumpet. As a sort of casual afterthought, Taylor admitted in his book that his program would call for a budget of from $50 billion to $55 billion a year, a sum that invoked scoffing laughter in Congress. But the book caught the eye of Senator Kennedy, who contributed a blurb for the publisher: "This volume is characterized by an unmistakable honesty, clarity...
...officials argue that, by definition, it would be impossible for two great powers such as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to fight a limited war. But Taylor has long claimed that a limited war in Europe was indeed possible. To take the other view, Taylor says in The Uncertain Trumpet, "means that any collision of patrols would automatically result in general atomic...
...serve as a military and intelligence planner in the cold war. The specifics of the job were vague, but there is nothing vague about the views that Max Taylor brings to the White House: they have been bluntly and controversially stated in his 1959 book, The Uncertain Trumpet, and in his public statements...
...around that Bobby Kennedy might be planning a 5-1 ratio, with 58 of the new posts going to Democrats and 15 to Republicans. That was not at all what a lot of Democrats had in mind, and Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara voiced his feelings in no uncertain terms: "I will oppose any Republican from Michigan regardless of who he is. That's final...
With diffident grace, as "an Oxford man with an uncertain academic record." Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home. 57, the 14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), last week accepted an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. "Amid winds of change, he labors with sure lucidity for community among nations." said the citation. In a Harvard speech, in another in Chicago, in private talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Washington, Lord Home was getting across to Americans what the British have already learned to their considerable surprise: in less than a year on the job. Home has emerged as the strongest British...