Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserve-training program," said Missouri's Stuart Symington, "to become an umbrella for avoiding active service." Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, prestigious Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall sponsored an amendment to the record $58.2 billion defense budget giving the President authority to call individual reservists to active duty for as long as two years. The Senate voted, 66 to 21, to adopt the amendment, which exempts men who served in World War II or Korea or who have already put in two years' active duty...
...budget movie, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, was hailed as the year's best religious film; so Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini has decided to try the formula again. And again. First he plans to shoot a modern-day version of St. Paul's travels, then a contemporary parable of Christ visiting a middle-class family. The fact that Pasolini is a Marxist seems to trouble a lot of people-but not Paolo. "What no one understands is that an Italian Marxist is very special. He doesn't change into another person when he votes Communist...
Grace & Delight. So pleased was the Pakistani government with the new reactor that last week it gave Stone the staggering commission to design its new capital at Islamabad. Working with a budget approaching $100 million, Stone will design five government structures, including the presidential residence, in the new capital's 50-block central core...
Both Finn and Swanger pointed out that making the program residential would involve a number of problems. Finn speculated that doubling the program's size and making it residential might triple the budget--from $70,000 to more than $200,000. There would also be, he said, possible problems of disciplinary rules and of finding dormitory space...
...sparsely settled eastern slopes to farming and light industry. So far this year Peru's per capita income is up 16% to an annual rate of $365, which may not sound like much but is dramatic in view of the country's past poverty. Though the budget will be $30 million in the red this year, the sol is one of the stablest currencies in Latin America...