Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...satellites, pumped new life into the B70 bomber and Bomarc antiaircraft-missile program, bolstered the Army's airlift capability, and earmarked $293 million for a conventionally powered supercarrier. Added by floor amendment were $90 million (for a $422 million total) to modernize Army weapons and $40 million to keep the Marine Corps at 200,000 men. A conference committee would likely split House-Senate differences, peg defense spending at some $600 million over Ike's budget...
...mild June weather, people strolled around the Diet building: the young men in white shirts without jackets, the girls in their summer dresses. One solitary uniformed guard stood at the Diet gate where thousands fought last week, but no attempt was made to keep people...
Quiet, tenacious and coldly intellectual, Nozaka prefers to stay in the background and strives to keep the Communist Party offstage as well. On occasion, when public opinion has turned hostile to too much violence, he has urged the Japanese Communist Party to strive to be "lovable." In the anti-Kishi, antiAmerican agitation, the Communists have supplied money (cost of the riots: an estimated $1,400,000), direction and organizing ability, but have cannily let the Socialists, Sohyo and the Zengakuren crackpots take the vocal lead...
...Army bands and the Armed Forces Network, and there are now about 50 professional German combos and roughly 1,000 amateur jazz bands, many of them on high school and college campuses. Other amateurs play in abandoned bomb shelters or in the "jazz-houses" erected by German cities to keep youngsters off the streets. What has happened, notes one jazz authority, is that jazz has replaced the family musicale as the "Hansmusik of our time...
...flimsy excuses is the fight of President Clarence N. Sayen of the Air Line Pilots Association against Federal Aviation Agency Boss Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Ever since Quesada took over the agency last year, he has cracked down on sloppy flying, particularly in jets, told his inspectors in planes to keep a sharp eye out for violators. A.L.P.A. President Clarence Sayen fought back, accused FAA inspectors of endangering lives through "petty, ridiculous harassment of flight crews." He even tried to have FAA funds earmarked for inspector training shifted to other uses. Says he: "It is a foolish waste of public money...