Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rural-dominated state legislature. And, though Sam Yorty may have more authority than he cares to exercise, the fact remains that his power is severely limited. "Mayors are being made scapegoats all over the country," says Yorty. "In lots of ways, the cities we represent have much bigger problems than the states...
...Army Air Forces in World War II, he bounced back to the state assembly in 1949, got himself elected a year later to the first of two terms in Congress, where he fought doggedly for California's claim on tide-lands oil. Looking, as always, for bigger things, he took on Republican Senator Tom Kuchel in 1954, lost in a bitter contest. He practiced law for the next seven years, then decided in 1961 to challenge the incumbent mayor, genial but colorless Norris Poulson. Sam shaved off the mustache he had worn since he was 17 ("I always wanted...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Boss George Meany last week demanded much bigger pay raises for labor, and went so far as to blame rising prices on soaring business profits. He thereby ignored the fact that the average manufacturer's profit margin per dollar of sales is right where it was a year...
...Latin American heads of state and President Johnson to get together later this year and discuss economic integration and other regional problems of the hemisphere. The response was overwhelmingly in favor, and only the time and place remained to be set. Last week, in a small warmup to the bigger meeting, President Frei flew off to Bogotá for a threeday, five-nation "Andean summit...
...Bogotá," the five countries pinpointed eight main areas for joint industrial development (metallurgy, chemicals and petrochemicals, fertilizers, food, electronics, timber, cellulose and manufactured metal products) and four other areas for nonindustrial development (roads, communications, electric power and banking). As a hint of what will come at the bigger hemisphere-wide meeting, the five also requested more say in the Alliance for Progress, which marked its fifth anniversary last week. The fruits of the Bogotá meeting may not show up for months, until committees work out the details and actual coordination of the broader programs. Until then, the five...