Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil defense by the Eisenhower Administration. He had already made his request clearly and firmly at the White House and had been turned down pending an analysis of the needs of Government agencies. Undismayed, Ellis decided to go ahead with his budget plans, with or without Administration approval. The bigger budget was needed, he insisted, to dig more bomb shelters, improve existing shelters, stockpile medicine and mobile hospitals, and expand the OCDM educational program. "I haven't received much encouragement yet," Ellis admitted, "but it is a vital interest of the President to expand and extend this program...
...even bigger species of capitalismus atavis was turned up by Rural Life, in the central Russian town 'of Rylsk. Though Fedor Kuznetsov had lived in Rylsk for 30 years, he was oddly asocial. His house was surrounded by a high board fence; in the evenings, music blared inexplicably from loudspeakers on the lawn. He never entertained, made the postman put the mail through a slit in the fence. Until he retired five years ago, Kuznetsov worked as a valenki (felt boots) maker in a commune, dutifully handed in his monthly norm of 15 pairs of valenki per month...
Radio Nord is only the latest radio pirate to steal onto the airways. The Swiss-owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...
...their campaign for federal aid to parochial schools, Roman Catholics have so far demanded only low-cost building loans. But last week a top Catholic tactician proposed a bigger package: not only loans but direct grants to parochial schools, such as would be given public schools in the Kennedy education bill...
...curbside tubs. At a sidewalk cafe, Ivan Kro-scenko, 31. a man in a black leather jacket, sipped espresso and cased the pedestrian traffic with a predatory eye. A bearded giant strode past: Cinemactor Steve ("Hercules") Reeves. "Mr. Universe," sneered Kroscenko softly. "So who cares?" He was after bigger game. "Linda Christian. Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg. Jayne Mansfield." he rolled the names lovingly across his tongue. "They are important people. They make trouble." Kroscenko rose, slung the strap of his Rolleicord camera over a shoulder, and went prowling for trouble...