Word: dump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Landscape Architect Henry Soto, who had to drive by a 40-ft.-deep clay pit every day on his way to work, was suddenly struck by an idea. Rounding up a few partners, he bought the pit and converted it into a private dump, charging $8 per load. To appease neighbors' noses, he covered each day's refuse with a layer of earth. To screen the mess from passersby, he built a bamboo fence, planted the border with floodlit flower beds and palm trees. When finished, the area looked so little like a dump that...
...approached and Wallace outgrew an instinctive isolationism, Roosevelt-who was anxious in any case to dump curmudgeonly old John Nance Garner as his two-term Vice President-chose his Agriculture Secretary for the vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb...
Califano at the Texas White House that he was to run the aluminum show, thus enabling Lyndon Johnson to keep in the background. McNamara quickly moved into the limelight in front of Gardner Ackley, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor (who opposed the stockpile dumping as unworkable, confined his own action to a speech defending the Administration after the price hike had been rescinded). McNamara used roughly the same technique that the U.S. had used on the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis: turn the screw only half a notch at a time, then release...
Javits replied coldly and made a point of supporting the Governor's reelection. But there may be a spontaneous Dump Rockefeller movement at the 1966 nominating convention, even without Javits' and other Republican liberals' support; it will originate, if at all, among Republicans from the area where the Governor's popularity has been plummeting most quickly: upstate...
...holiday by the Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany's best friend is the U.S. (Strauss is inclined to think it's De Gaulle). Strauss also called for removal of Erich Mende, chief of the Free Democrats and a longtime Strauss-hater, from his coalition post...