Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictably, Connor reverted to form. He broke up a march on city hall by ordering mass arrests. "Call the wagons, Sergeant, I'm hungry," barked Bull. Next day he called out his police dogs. A 19-year-old Negro youth took a swipe at one with a clay pipe. The dog turned on the boy, and a crowd of Negroes surged forward, one carrying a knife. It took some 15 cops and their dogs to break up the melee...
...welfare program. What we are trying to do is assist the people of these countries to get in the position where they can solve their own problems." Last month President Kennedy's special Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, headed by retired General Lucius D. Clay, produced a report that, while thoroughly endorsing the principle of foreign aid, declared: "We cannot believe that our national interest is served by indefinitely continuing commitments at the present rate to 95 countries and territories" (TIME, March 29). The report concluded that the U.S. could well reduce its present...
Sense-Making Objectives. The yearlong re-examination was reflected last week in President Kennedy's foreign aid message to Congress. Heeding the Clay committee, he trimmed his request for new aid funds from $4.9 billion to $4.5 billion. And he set forth sense-making objectives...
...lighten any adverse impact of the aid program on our own balance of payments and economy." - "To continue to assist in the defense of countries under the threat of external and internal Communist attack." He cited the Clay report's finding that "dollar for dollar" military aid programs "contribute more to the security of the free world than corresponding expenditures in our defense appropriations...
...used at slightly greater cost. The same principle applies to aluminum, which will increase steadily in importance. If high-quality foreign bauxite, which is now used as aluminum ore, becomes unavailable, the U.S. can turn to low-grade domestic deposits, or even to plentiful aluminum-containing clay. Other imporant metals, such as copper, can be extracted in any reasonable quantity out of low-grade domestic ores at somewhat higher cost. In only a few metals, including in and manganese, is the U.S. really deficient, and it would take only moderate technical ingenuity to get along without them...