Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...defend itself against a big Russian bomber force when the Soviets actually had switched to missiles. In the dawning age of ICBMs, the U.S. itself became a certain target with all major defense installations well known; yet U.S. forces did not know of any military targets except major Soviet cities, and precious little about the new ones that were behind the Urals. No gap in weapons was ever so serious to U.S. security as the intelligence...
...cost by 1970? Flemming shrugged, said his staff was still calculating. "This is the worst kind of fiscal irresponsibility," cried Virginia Democrat Burr Harrison. "This Townsend Plan-Rube Goldberg scheme is more socialistic and more unsound than the Forand bill." Quipped another Democrat: "This plan calls for everything except prenatal care for persons over 65." Chairman Wilbur Mills, an Arkansas Democrat who has long supported Ike's crusades for a balanced budget, was boiling mad. So, privately, were the Administration's Treasury and Budget watchdogs ("pure politics"), who had been overruled in the intramural debate...
Sharing the Nile. For the U.A.R., Qattara could be a useful auxiliary to the 10 billion kw-h expected from the Aswan High Dam. Except for insignificant rainfall, Egypt depends totally on the Nile for irrigation and power. Since 1,900 miles of the Upper Nile belong to the Sudan and its headwaters to four other countries with demands of their own, Egypt's future development may someday require more power than its share of the Nile can provide...
...still could hardly believe their power had toppled Syngman Rhee's twelve-year rule. When the curfew was moved up to midnight, jazz bands resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...
...other guests range from a bus driver and the postmistress of the Welsh village of Bontnewydd, near his father's home, to such stage celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Leslie Caron, Sir Michael Redgrave and Emlyn Williams. Marlene Dietrich was invited but, like all the crowned heads of Europe except Queen Ingrid of Denmark, she is too busy to come...