Word: deferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion in defense spending for Viet Nam next year may well expand it to the limit. Shortages of skilled la bor are showing up in the construction, aviation and shipbuilding industries. As a result, draft boards throughout the country have been ordered to defer specialized defense workers...
...sense, Fowler will be the first U.S. Cabinet member to be exposed directly to Europe's newly increased self-confidence. In international politics and defense, the Europeans still largely defer to U.S. leadership. In monetary matters, however, they feel increasingly that Europe's economic strength already makes it an equal partner with Washington. Fowler faces considerable skepticism and disagreement about the whole idea of monetary reform. Practically all the Europeans (except the British) oppose his plan for an international monetary conference, believing that any reform should be left to the powerful Group of Ten nations...
Last month Mexico's first two women Senators took office. Uruguay and Colombia each have one woman Senator, and nearly every other country has at least one lady Deputy. Do they quietly defer to the menfolk? Certainly not. Colombia's ex-Senator Esmeralda Arboleda de Uribe, who has a TV show called Controversia in Bogotá, grills political leaders on the country's touchiest issues. Costa Rica's Maria de Chittenden, 45, is a great believer in womanly wiles. She is easily the prettiest Ambassador to London's Court of St. James...
...into an administrative backroom--the Senate Rules and Administration committee which had never before undertaken a major investigation. The committee usually oversees the Senate Restaurant, the Botanical Gardens, and the painting and statuary on the Hill. In committee, two major problems arose. Three of the Democratic members preferred to defer to a subcommittee headed by the less than energetic Carl Hayden. The chairman, B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) refused. Secondly, an impartial counsel had to be brought in from cutside the Senate. The committee seemed on the verge of an investigation of the ethical standards of members...
Early this fall, President Pusey said that the University would defer to the wishes of the Kennedy family. The city Council indicated last spring that it too would accept the library on the Bennett St. site...