Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although Symington optimistically estimated that his plan would save $8 billion, it was not likely to find many backers either in the Pentagon or on Capitol Hill. Even President Eisenhower's mod erate efforts at service reorganization, approved by Congress in 1958, have yet to be given a thorough...
Even more indicative was the noncommittal comment of President-elect Jack Kennedy: "It is an interesting and constructive study, which I know will be carefully analyzed by the Congress and the incoming Administration." At week's end the word around Washington was that Kennedy had no intention of submitting...
Attorney Clark M. Clifford, Kennedy's liaison man with the outgoing Eisenhower Administration; former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter; former Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric; Manhattan Attorney Fowler Hamilton; Marx Leva, counsel to the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal.
All he wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated...
Boynton kept right on fighting the case. He appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court-where lawyers supplied by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attempted to turn the Boynton case into a legal landmark in the struggle against Jim Crow. Arguing on broad constitutional grounds, Boynton'...