Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...call in civilian industry to run its program. Chief of Naval Operations Burke issued orders to Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 55, a bluff, barrel-chested navigator who had never seen the sea before he got to Annapolis with the class of 1928. Burke gave Raborn orders to proceed with "all possible haste" to develop a fleet ballistic missile. He was authorized to set up a task force called, simply, Special Projects, which would cut across all the Navy's cherished bureaus. His work, Raborn was told, would get "Brickbat Zero One" priority; there was (and is) none...
...reformers also are having second thoughts about how to proceed in bringing ex-Premier Menderes, ex-President Celal Bayar and more than 400 other arrested Democratic leaders to trial for corruption. The army reformers are increasingly aware that vindictive, Castro-style blood-letting would only hurt Turkey's world standing, are considerably less bloodthirsty than the press or public in demanding punishment of the old regime. "If the army had wanted to kill all those men," said a Turk appointed to one of the 15 (out of 19) interim ministries assigned to civilians, "it could easily have killed them...
...whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook's tour of the plant and animal kingdom is no longer considered an effective way to proceed...
...Peking grew shriller last week than any dispute ever overheard between states claiming to live in Marxist unity and solidarity. The comrades were not arguing about trivialities: the Chinese want Communism fast and by brute force; the Russians, having built up their industrial and armed might, want to proceed a bit cautiously...
...proposes to lead the nation. I find it unreasonable-in these times-that the leading Republican candidate for the presidential nomination has firmly insisted upon making known his program and his policies not before, but only after nomination by his party." The nation and the party, he said, cannot proceed "to meet the future with a banner aloft whose only emblem is a question mark...