Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gimmicks. There is an almost machinelike singlemindedness about him. His most vehement cuss words are "darn" and "dad-gum." A jut-jawed six-footer, he never smokes, drinks little, swims and plays tennis to remain at a flat-bellied 180 Ibs.-only 10 Ibs. over his cadet weight. Says Major General Richard Stilwell, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand: "He has no gimmicks, no hand grenades or pearl-handled pistols. He's just a very straightforward, determined man." Few who know him doubt that he will some day be Army Chief of Staff...
...great legislative and judicial battles have been won. Local obstructionism yields, barrier by barrier, community by community, under the weight of law and the pressure of protest...
...major forces in the world today are Christianity and Communism, and that they must work together to prevent the destruction of mankind in nuclear war. "It would be a tragedy of history," Garaudy writes, "if their cooperation for the common construction of the future were frustrated by the weight of the past...
...whose counsel will carry the most weight with Lyndon Johnson and who must make the delicate decisions in the next few weeks is the President's quiet, effective and Keynesian-minded chief economic strategist, Gardner Ackley. "We're learning to live with prosperity," says Ackley, "and frankly, we don't know as much about managing prosperity as getting there...
...contribution to joint military projects-notably a new chain of island bases east of Suez (TIME, Nov. 19). Johnson, for his part, will invite British cooperation in providing an alternative to the proposed NATO multilateral force (MLF) of missile-firing surface ships, a plan that sank under the weight of allied disagreement. Johnson hopes instead that Britain will turn over its Po laris submarines, now abuilding, to a new NATO nuclear force to be operated jointly on a shared-cost basis as a kind of deep-down...