Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model. The present building, completed in 1941, was designed to hold 932 inmates. In 1970 there were 2,000. Now, with a population of only 530, conditions remain so appalling that the New York board of corrections began hearings last week to decide the gothic jail's fate. The most likely verdict now appears to be to destroy the Tombs. Its passing will not be mourned...
...minds of the older generation, as giving up the Algarve. For half a millennium the territories had been part of Portugal, romantic symbols of the country's rich past. If the Portuguese should leave now, some hardliners have further insisted, the territories would suffer the same fate that befell the Congo when the Belgians left. "It would be a crime to leave, as the Belgians did," one such rightwinger argues. "The natives would just kill and eat each other...
Khrushchev was too shrewd and too proud to accept such a fate for what he called "the substance of my viewpoint." Though publicly powerless, he believed that as a loyal Soviet citizen he could dictate his reminiscences without provoking direct interference from the regime. His family, associates and friends screened the tapes for details of security matters and potentially compromising material. These they removed...
...them expire without a fight. But last week Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois called in the Senate Democratic Caucus for a limited extension; to his own surprise, his motion was adopted unanimously. A bill embodying his ideas has a good chance to pass the full Senate, though its fate in the House is uncertain. The bill would permit the Cost of Living Council to reimpose controls on companies that violate commitments they had made earlier to hold down price increases and on industries that show marked inflationary tendencies...
...bill. Estimated total reduction: $5.9 billion a year. The legislation could be introduced in the Senate as early as this week, and is expected to get quick approval; no Senator likes to vote against a tax cut in an election year. In the House, the bill's fate probably will be determined by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. Last week he seemed cautiously receptive. The President has let it be known that he would veto any tax-cut bill...