Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Library at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., that in terms of personal safety and national economy, the U.S. could ill afford the luxury of two independent and jealously self-preoccupied national organizations for the development of national space programs, one military (the Air Force Systems Command) and one civilian (NASA), with the gigantic national industrial complex shifting as best it could between them. There should be a single program, with military and civilian correlatives and applications. This thesis was looked upon by many as heretical. But this program duplication, which perhaps constituted merely a lavish logistical travesty...
...President's $1.75 billion request. This year, with 47 more Republicans in the House-most of them vociferously critical of the program's waste and mismanagement-even deeper cuts are expected to be made in the President's $2.06 billion request. Moreover, the war's command post, the Office of Economic Opportunity, will be lucky to escape in one piece...
...government was frankly pleased by such results from a year of freeze and squeeze. "We are back on course," Callaghan told the house. "The ship is picking up speed." Then, to the disappointment of his listeners, the helmsman added: "Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: steady as she goes." Callaghan urged another year of deflation. Government spending will rise by 8½%, he said, but wages, profits, dividends will continue to be dampened -by law until the austerity measures run out in July, after that by persuasion and the specter of reimposed orders. To the alarm...
...World War II, Prideaux has within his grasp the command of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe should Hitler invade Poland. At this moment, a letter appears in a British magazine, suggesting that Prideaux had actually blundered at Dan-koi and, in fact, was not present when needed. Prideaux, naturally, sues for libel, whereupon the whole story is re-enacted for judge and reader...
...connoisseur of mysteries knows that the unsolved ones are best. They command the imagination far more powerfully than the most neatly solved crimes. "What ever happened to Judge Crater?" provoked a number of literary discussions without drawing the judge into the open. In this well-documented addition to the annals of crime, a New York freelance writer now asks, "What ever happened to Charley Ross...