Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though the Air Force is pleased with its version of the sweep-wing fighter-bomber, the Navy still considers too heavy for aircraft carriers...
...first stop was Houston, where the President toured the Manned Spacecraft Center. Next, he dropped in at Beaumont, Texas, for a fund-raising dinner, then on to Marietta, Ga., to watch Lockheed Aircraft roll out the world's largest aircraft, the C-5A Galaxy flying freighter (wing span: 223 ft., height: 65 ft.), which can lift 21 times more cargo than any current U.S. air transport. "This would sure carry a lot of hay," marveled Johnson after touring the C-5A's barnlike cargo hold. Then he flew to Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico...
...announcement loosed a flood of excitement. Conspiracy theories took wing like a fallout of finches. Barry Goldwater I-told-you-so-ed: "Romney was nothing more than a stalking-horse for Rockefeller." Some seers deduced that Rockefeller had stabbed Romney the previous week by admitting that he would accept a draft. Others whispered that it was a twin double cross: Romney quitting early enough to wreck Rockefeller's timetable in retaliation for Rockefeller's supposed duplicity. No one, of course, could substantiate anything, and the speculation was subsiding as the shock wore...
...wanted the backing of liberal Republicans. Rockefeller refused to consider the vice-presidential nomination, harpooned the outgoing Eisenhower Administration-and by implication, Nixon-and, as the price of support, exacted from Nixon the famed 14-point Fifth Avenue compact that put Nixon in bad odor with the Republican right wing...
...conflict on basic principles. When Rockefeller worked for Eisenhower as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and later as his Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs, he occasionally found an ally in Nixon against more conservative elements in the Administration. Certainly Nixon is at home with the congressional wing of the party, oriented toward the Middle West and limit ed government, while Rockefeller is of the Eastern Establishment, prone to look first toward the executive branch. Yet if during the '60s Goldwater has symbolized Republicanism's right frontier and Rockefeller its left, Nixon falls well between. On several...