Word: jointed
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...committee concentrated its attack on Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who had insisted during his testimony before the Senators that heavier air attacks in the North could not significantly reduce U.S. casualties in South Viet Nam. McNamara also strongly implied that nearly all of 51 targets recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but so far not approved by the President, were barely worth attacking, including the major port of Haiphong...
...committee's findings were exactly the opposite and embodied the opinions of such military men as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, Air Force Chief of Staff General John McConnell, Pacific Commander Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp and Marine Commandant Wallace Greene. The report concluded that many lucrative targets in the North had yet to be attacked and argued that more U.S. lives would be spared if the bombing could be expanded. All military witnesses before the committee, said the report, "felt that this measure would have a substantial impact on the course...
...customer asked for a record made in Germany by a group called the Beatles. When Epstein discovered they were playing near by in a joint named The Cavern, he took a squint. "It was a smoky, smelly, pretty squalid cellar," he later recalled, "and their act was ragged, undisciplined, and their clothes were a mess. Yet I recognized the appeal of their beat, and I rather liked their humor. I sensed something big-if it could be at once harnessed and at the same time left untamed." That was Brian Epstein's life work: organizing the unruly Merseyside boys...
Skirting Dogma. Most of the ecumenical progress outlined during the Crete meeting was in areas of joint social and economic activity, unclouded by bitter historical disputes and fundamental differences of doctrine. Particularly emphasized was emergency relief, such as last year's collaboration between W.C.C. and Catholic organizations in aiding famine-threatened India. In this connection, Dr. Blake predicted that the Roman Catholic Church and the W.C.C. might begin to "spend money together" by the end of next year. The joint working group also called for more cooperation in missionary activities, Bible translations, and, citing the similarity of educational problems...
Presented at the meeting was the Vatican-approved report of the joint working group, which revealed that Rome will send a new category of 15 "delegated observers" to next summer's massive World Council assembly in Uppsala, Sweden. For the first time, Roman Catholics will be entitled to address the assembly and, according to the World Council's general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who would not elaborate, the new category "could also affect the makeup of the new central committee...