Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Craft feared an even bigger "rowbottom" (as these things are called at Penn) for Friday night, and he decided suddenly to make concessions. He knew that students would be leaving their dorms by 5 p.m. for dinner, and any solution would have to be well publicized before that time or it would be too late...
...York Banker David Rockefeller, however, the answer lies not in bigger portions of federal aid but in the creation of an effective partnership between Government and business-with business carrying the major load. "Urban rehabilitation is primarily a task for private enterprise," he told the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization last week. "Government can lend support and provide incentive-and it is important that these things be done. But, fundamentally, this is a job of massive financial and human investment that can best be accomplished by the private sector." Added Rockefeller caustically: "Many of my businessmen friends tell me that...
Advanced nations tend to rely more and more on activist government to enlarge their citizens' wellbeing. But the more government does for people the bigger government gets-and the smaller citizens feel. What champion can fight city hall, slash red tape and rescue the Little Guy from the insolence of Big Bureaucracy...
...Angeles Superior Court to give him a divorce from Liz more than two years after she married Richard Burton. Eddie doesn't think Liz ever got a valid divorce, since he was not represented at the 1964 proceedings in Mexico. And to make the joke seem even bigger, he requested the court "to determine the nature and extent of the community property of the plaintiff and the defendant and that the same be divided equally between them." On that basis, Plaintiff Fisher could collect as community property about $1,000,000 of the money she earned in Cleopatra...
...also revved up its relations with the Pentagon, which stunned Boeing by awarding the TFX (now F-lll) fighter to General Dynamics in 1962 and the giant C-5A cargo plane to Lockheed last year. Boeing's massive research and development program should help it to capture a bigger share of aerospace and defense work. Among the potential $1 billion-plus projects up for grabs: the AMSA (advanced manned strategic aircraft) bomber project...