Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anxious to stop Kennedy, Arizona's Symington backers joined forces with Johnson men, sought to gain control of the state's 17-vote delegation and send it to Los Angeles uninstructed and ready, under the unit rule, for a possible swing to Symington. But in a day-long fight at the state convention. Kennedy backers, led by Congressman Stewart Udall, won nine votes, enough to rule the delegation for at least the first ballot. ¶ Oklahoma's stormy Democratic convention unseated Kennedy-suoporting Governor J. Howard Edmondson. 34, as a national-convention delegate, steamrollered on to choose...
When an inhabited satellite orbits 2,200 miles above the earth, its crew will be riddled by the fast-moving protons of the inner Van Allen radiation belt. If unshielded, the spacemen will be inflicted with about 3,000 rem (the unit of radiation effect on human tissue) per week many times more than a lethal dose. Even if the satellite stays below the Van Allen radiation, its crew may still be in peril...
...smash him, Castro sent a small combined unit of militia and regulars under the command of a major. Instead, Beatón killed the major. Out from Havana on the run hurried an alarmed Fidel with his army chief, Juan Almeida, and his Armed Forces Minister, Brother Raúl, at his side. Pelted by spring rains, they slogged last week through calf-deep red mud seeking out the new rebel...
...build a hotel, he quickly learned that high land cost and tight mortgage money made it difficult for a small developer to operate. He turned to building coops, and started a new trend. Explains Aluli: "I figured land was so scarce, why not subdivide the air?" His first 46-unit co-op apartment sold out seven hours after he advertised it, and he had enough investors left to finance a second 32-apartment coop. He went on to build the 200-room Oahuan Tower, the 60-room null and the 650-room Kalia off Waikiki Beach. His most ambitious project...
PORTABLE ATOMIC REACTOR, lightest of its kind, will be installed by U.S. Army in Greenland. Weighing 310 tons, unit will produce heat and lights for 100-man base, run for a year on one planeload of uranium...