Word: chronical
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...offing as the week went by. Postmaster General John Gronouski emerged from a ranch-house session to announce that his department's budget request had been cut back by $200 million, and that measures were afoot to whack $100 million off the Post Office's chronic deficit next year, thus effecting an equivalent $100 million saving in the federal budget. Johnson himself disclosed that several hundred million dollars each had been pared off next year's budgets for the Agriculture Department, Atomic Energy Commission and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The cut in expenditures on space programs...
...Salvador) or dealing with Latin American affairs in Washington. The jobs took a personal toll: in 1947, when he was Second Secretary in Caracas, Venezuela, his first son swallowed some gaily colored fireworks, thinking they were candy, and died of phosphorous poisoning. In Mexico City Mann suffered from chronic altitude sickness...
...matter of personal incentives was clearly the key to the situation, both in industry and agriculture. It is the very nature of collective farming-not the relatively superficial problem of fertilizer production-that accounts for the chronic crisis. As Khrushchev's own figures showed, peasants working on their tiny, private half-acre plots, which comprise less than 1% of the arable land, sell to the state 14% of the country's meat, 30% of the eggs, and raise 65% of the cabbages and potatoes...
...others described Oswald's upbringing rather differently. Said John Carro, once probation officer for Oswald, who was a chronic truant during the time he lived in New York: "I got the feeling that the mother was so wrapped up in her own problems she never really saw her son's. I got the feeling that what the boy needed most was someone who cared. He was just a small, lonely, withdrawn kid who looked to me like he was heading for trouble...
...discovery was turned up in New York City, where the Oswald family lived for a time. Lee Oswald was a poor student and a chronic truant in his early teens. A psychiatric report concluded that he had schizophrenic tendencies and was "potentially dangerous," recommended that the boy be committed to an institution-but the city Family Court turned down the recommendation. Many of the other details of Oswald's early life-his disgruntled Marine Corps years, his 33-month stay in Moscow during an unsuccessful attempt to get Soviet citizenship, his marriage there to Hospital Pharmacist Marina Prusakova...