Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 45,000 ft. above the Southern California desert last week, a B-52 bomber cut loose the strange cargo tucked under its wing. Freed from the mother ship, a gleaming but cumbersome aluminum shape that looked like a huge inverted flatiron dived toward what seemed to be sure destruction on the earth below...
...going to be a long, hot summer with rioting in the East Wing," groaned Elizabeth Carpenter as she looked forlornly forward to Luci Baines Johnson's August wedding. As Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz has cause to worry. All the world's journalists, from the Australian Consolidated Press to an editor of the student paper at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, want to come to the affair. Turning most of them down is tough enough; saying no to assorted requests from reporters who have been invited is honing her tongue. How about telephones...
Wilson had hoped that his introduction of the long-awaited steel-nationalization bill early last week would mollify Labor's left wing not only on prices and incomes but on the Viet Nam question as well. He had miscalculated. Nearly 100 Labor M.P.s-almost one-third of Labor's parliamentary delegation-signed a petition calling on Wilson to completely dissociate the British government from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. The dissidents pressed so hard that Wilson had to move forward the date for a Commons debate on Viet...
...members to attend the fifth annual Cabinet-level conference of the two governments, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, 54, and his wife Mary left the rest of the gang at the doors of their Western-style rooms in Kyoto's elegant Miyako Hotel and headed for the Japanese wing. Beds are all very comfy at home, but when in Japan do as the ... A thin tatami mat, please, and they couldn't be more comfortable stretched right out there on the floor. "It feels wonderful and is very good to our spines," insisted Mary. Willard looked inscrutable...
...five-year term to resume his partnership in the famed banking house of Baring Brothers. The O'Brien appointment was calculated to offend neither the financial community of "the City," which would have resented the traditional selection of a Treasury aide, nor Labor's obstreperous left wing, which would have been unhappy with a private banker. O'Brien, who likes to play tennis on weekends at his Wimbledon district home, aimed his first shots toward midcourt. "We are the executants of monetary and exchange policy," he said. "But monetary questions cannot be isolated from the rest...