Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Careening toward adjournment, Congress last week approved the largest defense appropriation in history ($72 billion) and the stingiest foreign-aid appropriation ($1.75 billion). Those two figures told much about the week on Capitol Hill, and indeed about the entire contentious, niggardly 90th...
...Wallace won, say, the 47 electoral votes of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In that case, either Richard Nixon or Humphrey would need 55% of the remaining electoral votes to take the election. A popular-vote cliffhanger such as 1960 might well send the election to Capitol Hill-resulting in all sorts of weird possibilities and permutations...
...cover was "in dubious taste," and refused to distribute the album on its release date two months ago, thus holding up sales that probably would have amounted to $1,000,000. Decca may have been thinking of rival EMI's problem in 1966 when its U.S. subsidiary, Capitol Records, had to recall 500,000 copies of a Beatles album because of the cover. It showed the Beatles, in butcher smocks, laden with chunks of raw meat and the decapitated bodies of dolls...
...same blaring tone pervades the rest of the state's hospitality. Guides at the state capitol in Montgomery pointedly ask visitors, 'How do y'll lahk our state?" Correct answers may win handshakes with Governer Brewer ("he ain't a Wallace, but he's a good man") or small "Wallace in 68" buttons. In gas stations and greasy cafes all over the state, the same ritual goes one. "You from out of state? What y'll doin' round here? How you lahk it here?" The ritual has an important purpose: about half the people who come to Alabama are Southern...
...that is getting done on Capitol Hill, the rest of Congress might as well do the same. When the Congress did act, all too often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...