Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan complains about Congress' "crippling" cuts in NASA funds. But in fact Congress trimmed NASA funds in the current fiscal year by less than 6%-from $530 million to $500 million-and Glennan helped bring on that cut himself when he argued at a congressional hearing that extra funds could not speed up U.S. space progress...
...Western Europe. "Accordingly, I think it would be the greatest psychological mistake for us to appear to advocate limitation of the black, or brown, or yellow peoples whose population is increasing no faster than in the United States." If he were in the White House, presented by Congress with a foreign aid bill that asked recipient nations to curb population growth, Kennedy said, he would judge the measure by whether it "would be in the interest of the United States." If such a bill became law, said he, "I would uphold it as the law of the land...
...from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin courtyard in an eight-seat Soviet helicopter, which he pronounced "roomier and more comfortable" than Ike's Sikorsky. Next on Khrushchev's travel plans: a flight to Budapest to attend that mockery of "domestic jurisdiction," the Hungarian Communist Party Congress...
...people around and under the Fidel-Raúl-Che triumvirate give anti-Communists no cause for comfort. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, chief of INRA's land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt...
...prone Habaneros, accustomed to doing business in local branches of New York banks, promptly dubbed the institution "Che's National Bank." *Who a fortnight ago joined Che's and Raúl's wives as stars at a Communist-sponsored Women's Congress in Santiago, Chile...