Word: april
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner said than answered. Up popped Wisconsin's talky Senator William Proxmire, who has made a happy headline career out of baiting Leader Johnson (TIME, April 20) by demanding Democratic policy meetings. Said Proxmire: "I challenge Senators to tell us what our policy is on the budget, what our policy is on interest rates, what our policy is on taxation, or what our policy is on almost any issue. No one can tell me." While Republican Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully yielded five minutes of his own allotted floor time so that the Democratic squabble could continue, Johnson scoffed...
West. Britain now has a favorite balance of payments with the U.S. for the first time since 1865 (April exports to the U.S. totaled a record $100.8 million). London accordingly relaxed quota restrictions on dollar imports from the U.S. and Canada, leaving 90% of Britain's imports from the U.S. free of controls. The change has been expectable since last December, when Britain made the pound more freely convertible into dollars...
...Castro's confiscatory land reform (TIME, June 1). ¶ Waited the results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about $12 million of it in U.S. companies...
...action at Pork Chop Hill began on April 16, 1953, when . two Chinese Communist companies swarmed over the small U.S. garrison. Militarily, the hill was of small importance; morally, it had immense significance. By taking it, the Communists posed two questions that were crucial to the course of the peace talks at Panmunjom: 1) Was the U.S. high command, with a war-weary public at its back, still willing to incur large casualties merely to hold a little ground? 2) Was the U.S. infantryman, his morale weakened by a Congress-coddling rotation policy that moved him out of the line...
...stands now, the Class of 1963 will have slightly over 1200 students, 50 of whom will be commuters. This figure is actually slightly lower than the "top" figure, which was set at about 1220 by Dean Bundy in late April, when the Admissions Committee began its task of evaluating its thousands of applicants...