Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Circular Line. Thus, when Clark Clifford, McNamara's successor as Defense Secretary. went to Capitol Hill to request $227 million as a first installment on Sentinel, he ran into a skeptical Congress. In the Senate, Sentinel was opposed by a potent bipartisan coalition that included such normally defense-minded figures as Stuart Symington, a former Air Force Secretary, and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith. Their arguments: Sentinel is worthless and would merely prompt both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build more offensive missiles. Eugene McCarthy interrupted his presidential campaign to denounce the ABM system on the Senate...
...first time, the U.S. revealed a witness who recognized Ray from FBI photographs as resembling a man he spotted in the rooming house during the afternoon of April 4. Charles Quitman Stephens, 46, in an apartment next to the bathroom, heard the shot. "I went out and saw a man running," Stephens said in an affidavit. "Although I didn't get a long look, I think it was the same man I saw earlier...
...both Washington and Paris last week, the feeling grew that U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators have finally begun to move from rhetoric toward reality in their meetings. North Viet Nam's chief negotiator in the peace talks, Xuan Thuy, went out of his way to belittle American suggestions that longer tea or coffee breaks between the formal sessions represented some progress, noting ironically: "We talk about the seasons, the weather, the food, the scenery...
...family fortune is estimated at $7,000,000.) Young Pierre was driven to school by a chauffeur, as a boy was given private boxing lessons "because I was quite a puny child." Trudeau's father died when he was 14, and the loss saddened him for years. He went to a Jesuit college called Jean-de-Brebeuf, ran with a crowd known as Les Snobs, and invariably led his classes in academic honors...
Later, Trudeau went to the University of Montreal Law School, studied political economy at Harvard and, after World War II, at the University of Paris and the London School of Economics. But Trudeau, who was working on a Ph.D. thesis, became restless, one day packed up a knapsack and set out on an 18-month trek through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of his adventures: he swam the Bosporus. Returning to Quebec, Trudeau fought against the decrepit, reactionary regime of Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis. He wrote for an intellectual magazine called Cite Libre that helped bring a business...