Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiggle Watching. Hanoi was not sure that Lodge would be any more pliable than Averell Harriman-or any less. Reacting with scorn, North Viet Nam's army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan broke out in doggerel: "Which of the two has the more weathered skin,/ The man going out or the man coming in?" To Quan Doi, Lodge is "doomed to follow in the footsteps/Of Nixon the elephant/And feed on his leavings...
Uneven Efficacy. Yet by one traditional gauge-the enactment of major legislation-the Johnson Administration was conspicuously successful. Medicare and federal aid to education broke through longstanding barriers. Three far-reaching civil rights acts went beyond anything since Reconstruction. A series of laws aimed at slum renovation and consumer protection were progressive and long overdue. The various anti-poverty programs, while uneven in efficacy and wisdom, were the beginning of a necessary break with the dole approach. In the foreign field, the continuing torment of Viet Nam overshadowed significant accomplishments. Most notable were agreements with the Russians and the beginning...
...year on an encouragingly upbeat note (TIME, Dec. 6). Birth and Death, PBL's cinéma vérité documentary on natural childbirth and death by cancer, won critical acclaim, and the staff was jubilant. Said Executive Director Av (Avram) Westin: "This year we go for broke...
After black representatives broke off negotiations Saturday, Abram announced that he would ask the faculty to expel those participating in the seizure...
...team for help in checking it out. Team Member Gaylord Shaw phoned his sources at the Government Accounting Office, learned that GAO was already investigating the matter but had not revealed its findings. Shaw and Knutson secured a copy of the GAO report from Senator William Proxmire and broke the story...