Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal desegregation drive is heading over the hump, it is largely because Washington has the states over the barrel. Last year the South received more than $506 million in federal education subsidies, chiefly for lunches, laboratory equipment and research projects, and this year is no time to opt out. With President Johnson counting on vastly increasing the Washington aid and concentrating it on poverty-impacted districts, Alabama's share would double, the Carolinas' triple. Alabama's George Wallace is suddenly silent on the subject of federal intervention, which could bring Alabama $35 million just...
...this very instant, some poor infant undoubtedly is being christened Rock Hudson Whosis. But Bing Crosby can go them all one better: he has a practical joke named after him. The Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur golf championship is $84,500 worth of practicality and a barrel of laughs. Remember Arnold Palmer, who took nine strokes to get down on a par-three hole last year? And Bob Rosburg, who six-putted a green? And Bob Harrison, who joined the ranks of golf's mortals by firing an even 100 for the last 18 holes...
...cause of the uproar was the threatened cancellation of Britain's all-purpose TSR-2 bomber. A superbly sophisticated airplane that can fly at twice the speed of sound twelve miles high, or barrel along on the deck to elude enemy radar, the TSR-2 was first intended to be a light bomber. Later the plane was modified for direct support of ground troops, replacing the canceled Blue Water artillery missile. Then two years ago, when the U.S. decided to scrub its Skybolt air-to-ground thermonuclear missile, which had been destined for sale to the R.A.F...
Massachusetts Republican John A. Volpe, a former Governor who lost his first bid for re-election in 1962, faces money woes of immense proportions, even for the chronically broke Bay State. Says one fiscal expert: "It's not a question any more of the barrel being empty. There's no barrel anymore." Massachusetts needs $230 million in new money merely to keep operating state services at existing levels. Volpe wants a limited sales tax. But the legislature, with both houses controlled by Democrats, is not about to give Volpe that or much of anything else that will help...
While that was only a drop in the barrel-Middle East governments collected $1.75 billion from oil last year-the agreement marked the first time since OPEC was founded in 1960 that the organization has succeeded in getting more money out of the companies. The oil firms already pay an average of 75? a bbl. in royalties, plus a 50% tax on profits. In addition to an oversupply of oil and slumping world prices, the producers are now saddled with an added cost of doing business. They have no choice but to absorb...