Word: broading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dwight Eisenhower. Now he will be responsible for overseeing the development of domestic programs. How his mandate will mesh with that of Moynihan-who is a liberal Democrat with no personal ties to Nixon-is unclear. A division of labor could be established in which Burns concentrated on broad, long-range policy while Moynihan remained responsible for the day-to-day coordination of programs...
Reforms Proposed. LUV's labors are coming at a time when support is gathering for broad-based reform of the nation's electoral process, including lowering the voting age and abolishing the Electoral College Richard Nixon repeatedly advocated lowering the voting-age requirement during the campaign, and both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen are on record as supporting the move. Recently, Mansfield and Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken co-sponsored a resolution to lower the voting age to 18 and introduce a system of direct election that would...
...classmates and for myself it was a unique opportunity to work with a cross section of our society far broader than is available in the rarified world of Harvard. It need hardly be added that the challenges and responsibilities of leadership and command are themselves part of a broad education, especially for those graduates bound for professional life...
...Broad and Deep. The U.S., said Johnson, continues to enjoy an unequalled economic boom. "Our prosperity is broad and deep," he said. "It's brought record profits, the highest in our history, record wages. Our gross national product has grown more in the last five years than in any other period in our nation's history." The G.N.P. was $589,200,000,000 when Johnson took office; for calendar 1968 it is $861 billion. Unexpectedly, he also announced that the U.S. has achieved an international balance of payments surplus for the first time since 1957, which should...
...looked dwarfed by the huge jet bombers at the base. But the bright red Chipmunk craft nonchalantly settled to a perfect landing and taxied over to a hangar. There, a crowd of R.A.F. officers raised a cheer. Out of the plane stepped Britain's Prince Charles, flashing a broad grin. After 14 hours of instruction, the 20-year-old heir to the throne had logged his first solo flight and was well on his way to earning his pilot's license. ∙∙∙ The pews in the chapel of St. Luke's Church in McLean...