Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broke "in a matter of weeks." If the nations do not pay up. he added, "this will be looked on as an era in which raised voices and small bills unpaid marked the beginning of the disintegration of another of mankind's great dreams." Hence, the U.S. would chip in "a sizable voluntary contribution" beyond its normal 32.51% quota, just as it had done in 1960, when Washington picked up 50% of the entire Congo check. Probable total U.S. contribution: $60 million...
Last year, as a measure of his success, Moscoso, now 50, was able to move on once more. He went to Manhattan for some "belly-to-belly" selling of more blue-chip U.S. corporations on the advantages of setting up shop in Puerto Rico. A second job was an invitation to join the Kennedy task force on Latin America. He was also appointed U.S. delegate to a new U.N. Committee for Industrial Development. Last week, making his first speech at the U.N., Moscoso outlined Puerto Rico's successful principles of industrial growth: sound government, with adequate planning, budgeting...
...York Stock Exchange Board of Governors permitting, Ike's Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, 50, next week will cut the U.S. unemployment count by one. New job of the sometime Canadian holding-company tycoon and Texas attorney: a limited partnership in the blue-chip Manhattan investment house of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades...
...World Is Small." "All right," said Kennedy to a meeting of his top policy framers. "We must tell the congressional leaders and the people." He postponed his press conference one day to get a statement drafted. Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy and Soviet Expert Charles ("Chip") Bohlen drafted the first version, and Kennedy rejected it. Right up to press conference time he penciled away at the second draft in the anteroom of the new State Department auditorium. He was on the fourth page of the seven-page statement when he was told that the TV cameras were on. He coolly continued...
...would start a drive to rebuild it-and chip in conspicuously himself. He is beloved by the clergy for his contributions and for giving them what is generally known as "the clergyman's discount," i.e., cars at cost. He sponsors an annual Lake Michigan endurance swim, spends $1,000,000 a year on advertising...