Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governors also ran into stubborn resistance from the congressional wing of the party over the 1968 G.O.P. platform. They demanded that a moderate from their ranks be made co-chairman of the platform committee, serving on a par with the almost certain congressional spokesman, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and the conservative who chaired the 1964 platform committee, rejected the Governors' overtures, leaving unsettled what the tone of the 1968 G.O.P. platform will be and the kind of candidate who will be chosen...
Last June, Reischauer started work on Beyond Vietnam. Fearing above all that the frustrations of Vietnam might inspire a right wing isolationist reaction in this country, Reischauer has tried to strike a middle ground between isolation and escalation. Urging the government to seek negotiations rather than a military victory, he argued that further bombing of the North could do little beyond creating a second guerrilla theater. On the other hand, he maintains in his book, if we pull out immediately "in our eagerness to save American lives and stop the carnage, we might help produce such instability in Asia...
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...Center's current project is finding funds to finance a new six-story wing for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which will house teaching and research laboratories...
Construction costs for the delta-wing plane have soared. Without a single sale-and only 74 options now taken -the two countries are spending an estimated $1.4 billion on its development against the original 1962 estimate of $450 million. It is expected that another $500 million will be needed to fill the option orders, and a total of 200 must be sold to recoup a mere one-third of the development costs...