Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wang has developed a new method of programming information for his two computers, affectionately known as "704" and "Stretch." Stretch, for example, solved the first 376 theorems of the Principla Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertram Russell, fed to it in code form, in nine minutes--it had taken Wang seven hours to code them...
...paid for? In the real world, the answer would have to be either inflationary deficit spending or increased taxes, but in the platform's Utopia the Democrats propose to pay the added welfare costs by rubbing liberalism's newest Aladdin's lamp-the force-fed 5% economic growth rate (growth rate of the U.S. economy over the past half-century: 3%). Platform Committee Chairman Bowles admitted fortnight ago in Los Angeles that he did not know how a 5% growth rate could be achieved without inflation, but no such candor intrudes, into the platform...
...post on the Biltmore Hotel's eighth floor, the team headed by Jack's brother Bob (the "brash young man," as a New York Times editorial called him) took charge of arriving delegates, newsmen and even the political atmosphere. All week the nation's TV, radio and press were fed on rumors of impending Kennedy gains while the actual gains in delegates could still be counted on one hand...
...aged 65 or over, finance it by boosting social security payroll taxes. Enlarge federal aid for scholarships and construction of classrooms, laboratories, dormitories. Grant authority to the U.S. Attorney General to initiate school desegregation suits, and grant financial aid to localities desegregating their public schools. Prohibit discrimination in all fed erally subsidized public housing, "with the principle of nondiscrimination next applied to multiple-dwelling housing built with FHA mortgages...
...memo was purposely presented in a form that did not call for action by the committee or by the OAS. Angry as the U.S. is at Castro's attacks, it bears in mind the fact that although almost every Latin American government is fed up with Castro, many among the peasant masses in these countries still have a misty, remote view of Castro as a savior of their kind, and as a symbol of rebellion against their miserable lot. A government that voted to condemn Castro in the OAS would risk popular wrath at home. Such being the case...