Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon clearly enjoyed the partisan outing. His arms held aloft to acknowledge applause, his brisk rhetoric-even many of the lines-were part of last year's familiar campaign platform performances. Only one thing had changed: Nixon omitted the two-fingered V-sign with which he had once signaled victory. That has been appropriated by the petitioners for peace in Viet...
...With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible...
...submarines and H-bombers vastly outnumber their Soviet counterparts. To be sure, the larger average size of Soviet warheads gives the U.S.S.R. an enormous lead in deliverable megatonnage, but whether that is an advantage is debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe out U.S. offensive ICBMs in a surprise first strike. Yet the very number and variety of American nuclear weapons, combined with their wide dispersal...
...John V. Lindsay-tacking the support of either major political party-won his bid for re-election as Mayor of New York yesterday. Running on the Liberal and Independent tickets, he defeated Democrat Mario Procaccino and Republican-Conservative John Marchi...
...first half of the match was a near draw. Harvard seized a short-lived lead as John V. Welts 70 identified Latin as the language of the Roman Empire. Norfolk rebounded immediately when Frank Visser recalled that M is the 13th letter of the alphabet. At halftime the inmates held a 97-93 lead...