Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trimming appropriations $4.5 billion, and not all those cuts were wise. Last week, under pressure from Congress, President Johnson offered a further cut of $2.6 billion by paring 10% from outlays for "controllable" programs and 2% from personnel costs. Even with that, federal spending in this fiscal year will climb to $136 billion, as measured by the administrative budget, and the deficit will be close to $20 billion-highest since the World War II era. That threatens to tighten credit and increase interest rates, raise consumer prices and debilitate the dollar. Obviously, the budget must be cut still further...
...early evening. The Jazzmobile stops, and out climb three jazz musicians. Men and women sitting on their dirty stoops rise and walk over to see what's going on. Kids come running, pushing, fighting, laughing. The trio starts to play. It's an evening whose gaity relieves for a moment the oppression of dirt, disease, and hunger. "We're buying time," Heckscher says. "But you have to buy time in any way you can and hope that some how things will grow better rather than worse...
...high-fashion designers and shops want to climb aboard. Cardin has proclaimed: "Brown has class; it lends an air of distinction." Yves St. Laurent's bestsellers have turned out to be a brown tweed suit with cape and brown velvet evening ensembles. "Brown is such a beautiful color for winter," says French Vogue Editor Francoise de Langlade de La Renta. "So warm, so wonderful against a tanned skin." In Rome, after her trip to Cambodia and Thailand, Jacqueline Kennedy promptly placed an order with her favorite Italian designer, Valentino. Her choice: a wool crepe Mao shirt and matching skirt...
...must be too young to remember the spring day in 1955 when the world first heard Chuck Berry. Maybelline was the number, a new recording of the Negro rock song, Ida Red. It took three weeks to climb to the top of the national hit parade. Rock 'n roll was here to stay...
...Meanwhile, the new towners are living in nicer homes and enjoying more community facilities than they ever would have dreamed possible. Even the conflicts between new towners, Old Skelmers, and corporation executives seem small in some perspectives. One event, for example, brought the whole town resoundingly together--Skelm's climb to the amateur soccer final at Wembley