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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief of the Dallas office of the Secret Service, Forrest V. Sorrels, proposed the route for the motorcade, bearing in mind that the Secret Service was expected to send the President, in Kenny O'Donnell's words, "through an area which exposes him to the greatest number of people." By the most direct route, only four miles separate Love Field, where the President's jet landed at 11:40 a.m., and the Trade Mart, where he was scheduled to speak. But the motorcade meandered ten miles through suburbs and city. There were plenty of high buildings along...
...that "freedom of speech" might be his topic at the Library Dedication, and that "If anything, I'm going to ask him (Galbraith) to defend my freedom of speech as vigorously as his own." Lee insisted that F.C.C. "harrassment" has caused local television stations to deny him paid T-V air-time...
...price hikes. Rising demand has gradually alleviated the painful hangover of idle facilities that followed the plant-building binge of the mid-'50s, but U.S. industry in general is still not being strained to its limits. The nation's factories are now running at 88.5% of capacity v. 87% when the year began, are expected to hit between 89% and 90% before year...
...feared that the SSTs would be useless for medium-range flights because of the lengthy ascents they require to reach cruising altitudes, the engineers insisted that the planes will be practical down to flights of only 600 miles, will be able to operate productively for ten hours a day v. nine for the present jets. They held out promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed the inevitability of the SST-a telling argument to an audience that included many...
...Thirty Years' War, the Napoleonic French-dropped their Iron Curtains between north and south. Over the centuries there developed a dour, methodical, Protestant North, and an affable, beer-drinking, Catholic South. The East-West split, Leonhardt argues, has cut this historical Germany into quarters and generated an "Athens v. Sparta" complex that most Germans believe can only be cured by reunification...