Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What next? Why, to build a new balloon and circumnavigate the world. By soaring higher and ghosting along on stronger winds, Abruzzo figures that the trio might be able to do Jules Verne one better-in fact 50 days better-going around the world in 30 days. That dream itself provides a marvelous end to a marvelous adventure...
...August 4, Freshman Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island called on his Senate colleagues to vote down any further appropriations for the project. Said he: "That Mussolini-style building is an outrage." The Senate defeated his proposal by a vote of 49 to 25. Aside from the attractions of extravagance and the power of bureaucratic inertia, supporters of the building argued that it was required because of the threefold increase in the Senate staff since the last Senate offices were constructed 20 years ago. This increase, they said, was due largely to the Senate's efforts to build...
...Israelis' point of view, the problem stemmed less from duplicity than from the confusion of recent events. In late June, when it had appeared that the Middle East peace negotiations were seriously and perhaps permanently stalled, Begin and his senior colleagues had indeed approved a secret plan to build the villages. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a strong advocate of settlements, quietly went about the task of asking the various kibbutzim movements for volunteers. Soon the opposition Labor Party learned of the plan, and so did the press...
Identical rhetoric about campers learning to "build a better world" can be heard from Joseph Mehrten-only he is a spokesman for the eleven John Birch Society camps scattered across the country. Here the camp song is the Battle Hymn of the Republic, swimming races are meant to be won, and authority is still in vogue. "If you are late for a class, you get clean-up duties," says Mehrten...
...lift from Uganda to a meeting of Third World leaders in Algiers. Page subsequently sold Amin a Lockheed cargo plane and furnished crews for it. When Amin wanted to buy medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page break its aircraft service contract with Amin...