Word: facing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...always will need both. To keep the B70 program aloft, airmen require something like $400 million in the budget for fiscal 1962. How far and how fast to go with the controversial B-70-perhaps the last piloted bomber-will be one of the first military decisions to face the incoming Administration...
...police found a dry-cell battery and a tin of "Vasenol ointment." Inside the battery were microfilms of a secret, detailed West German defense budget and a secret list of all West German naval vessels. When a government agent tried to open the ointment, it blew up in his face; the tin had been booby-trapped with just enough explosive to destroy the evidence...
...worked for the nation and why he used to say he was too busy to attend the National Assembly." On the stand, Menderes, haggard from five months' imprisonment, admitted to having had an affair with the singer, but denied being an accomplice to murder. "I never saw her face after the death of the baby. I was having a new affair, but we separated in a friendly way." Asked about his new inamorata, the old lover smiled broadly, "Let's forget about that." The audience laughed...
Cuban anti-Communists dedicated to the overthrow of Fidel Castro face a task that, militarily, grows tougher by the day. Last week a newly escaped Cuban army officer put it bluntly: "There must be a modern force of at least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba...
Alan Lerner was raised in a 17-room Park Avenue apartment with a paneled library and wall-to-wall antiques. He adored his father and resented his forceful mother. There was considerable tension between the parents (later divorced). Alan's mother once slapped his face, saying: "You look too much like your father." Muses Alan now: "My mother really didn't start loving me until Brigadoon...