Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wrenched Compromise. The two amendments, according to White House estimates, would have lopped $1 billion in revenue from the House-passed bill to raise an additional $6 billion. After powerful arm wrenching, Administration forces persuaded a House-Senate conference committee to knock out Hartke's amendment. But Prouty's pet, though watered down, remained. As finally approved by the conference, it would 1) provide $35 monthly for individuals, $52.50 for couples; 2) benefit only persons who are 72 or older or who reach that age by Jan. 1, 1968, and are not receiving a specified amount of Government...
Watching TV during the last few weeks, Americans saw the spectacle of a half circle of rumpled men on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Chairman William Fulbright peering over his spectacles like a country-store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia...
...Along the way he competed in 16 meets, won his event in 13 of them, set two new world records (16 ft. 9½-in. and 16 ft. 10 in.). In Boston, he soared cleanly over the bar at 17 ft. i in., only to dislodge it with his arm on the way down. In Los Angeles, he cleared 16 ft. 10 in. with almost a foot to spare, only to fail three times when the bar was raised...
...Master Reuben Brower (currently on sabbatical) and Acting Master G. Wallace Woodworth, Adams has gained a reputation as the laissez-faire House. Enforcement of regulations is low-key and relaxed, but any Freshman intoxicated with visions of going to breakfast, wearing a T-shirt, with his mistress on his arm, should drink a cup of strong coffee. The girl will be asked to return at 4 p.m. and Neil Harris will probably ask the student to wear a tie. But he'll call it a cravat, which makes everything all right...
...resulting proposal contains several extraordinary provisions that will make the new commission virtually an administrative arm of the mayor...