Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most encouraging note in the report was that the services themselves, under McNamara's prodding, have actually become enthusiastic about saving money. The Navy, planning to buy 1,400 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, found it already had enough, scrapped the order at a saving of $45 million. The Marine Corps found it could adapt Army 120-mm. shells for use in its M103 tanks at a cost of 32#162 per shell instead of paying $95 each for new ones. The Army decided it could get along with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent than...
...Note: The following is a transcript from a network's coverage of the Republican National Convention shortly before balloting for the GOP's presidential nominee. Governor Scranton, watching the proceedings from his suite in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, has just retired to the bathroom...
...Reassuring Note. Four and a half hours later, the civil rights bill lay on President Johnson's desk. Staring deep into the eyes of television cameras, Johnson spoke slowly and somberly to the nation. Millions of Americans have been denied equal opportunity because of their color, said the President, "but it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it; the principles of our freedom forbid it, and the law I will sign tonight forbids...
...upcoming tests of the civil rights bill would be as trouble-free as young Eugene Young's haircut. But a reassuring note was struck by Georgia's Representative Charles Weltner, who turned to his Southern colleagues on the House floor and said: "I would urge that we now move on to the unfinished task of building a new South. We must not remain forever bound to another lost cause...
...Chronicle has pledged blanket convention coverage: Count Marco, for example, taking note of the convention site, the Cow Palace, announced plans to examine the herd of delegates and delegates' wives in search of cows. Editorially, the paper greeted Bill Scranton's entry with hearty cheers...