Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Associate Justice William O. Douglas, 62, deplaned in Moscow with a knapsack full of obiter dicta. Noting that the Ulan Bator intelligentsia is "starved for contact with the West" and that "the Russians are doing a wonderful public relations job for themselves" there, the outspoken jurist urged a U.S. counter-push, starting with instant diplomatic recognition...
...airline passenger's second greatest fear usually is for his luggage. Most of the time he hauls his bags to the counter, waits in line to have them weighed and ticketed, and watches them lurch away, neurotically convinced they will be dented beyond recognition or sent on the wrong plane to the wrong place. At the other end of a trip, he mills around in the baggage claim area, waiting for what seems like a longer time than the duration of the flight itself. Last week, at Los Angeles' new International Airport, United Air Lines launched a completely...
...some of the upward pressures that an expanding economy generally exerts on interest rates are missing this year. So far, the Fed has not had to boost borrowing rates to head off inflation, because prices have remained fairly stable throughout the recovery. President Kennedy is reluctant to take any counter-inflationary step that might slow recovery. so long as 6.9% of the work force remains unemployed. For the moment, too, with the U.S. balance of payments in relatively good shape and the pressure on U.S. gold reserves consequently diminished, the Administration feels no great need to juggle interest rates...
...proposal made sense in the need to be able to match Khrushchev in long-term commitments to needy nations. But Congressmen do not lightly surrender the power of the purse as a lever on the Executive. Harry Byrd, dean of Senate conservatives and as accurate a vote counter as exists on Capitol Hill, was pretty sure that his amendment would not pass. But he hoped for a moral victory that would encourage the foes of the five-year proposal when it came up in the House of Representatives, always much tougher about foreign aid than the Senate. "Well...
...that he had personally "abstained from joining the society because it might not be far enough to the right." Equally abstemious, for different reasons, was another vintage journalist, California Rancher Thomas M. Storke, 84, who for 61 years has been editor-publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. To counter Big Bircher Robert Welch's $2,300 college essay contest on reasons why Warren should be impeached, Storke offered $1,500 for dissertations on "The Problem of Character Assassination," but limited his entry list to law students and one other group. Snorted longtime Welch Baiter Storke...