Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further matter undoubtedly discussed last week by the visitor from the Kremlin was nonmilitary aid. Nasser needs food, and his nation has largely been fed from U.S. surpluses. However, Washington has been noncommittal on $150 million worth of grain needed this year. Will Moscow supply it? Nasser was plainly uncertain. Escorting Kosygin around Aswan last week, Nasser passed up an ideal opportunity for an anti-U.S. tirade, which could not have pleased his dour Soviet guest. However, Egypt's leader was full of praise for "U.A.R.-Soviet solidarity." Then they went off to see the sights...
There were heartening signs that New Yorkers were finally getting fed up with the foulness in the air. Only a week earlier, the New York City Council had unanimously passed the toughest air-pollution bill ever, including fines for violators ranging from $500 to $1,000. The same week, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller sent a bill to the legislature that would permit the state's Air Pollution Control Board to establish even stricter fuel standards...
...interest of the United States and Vietnamese people, although our emphasis should be on political objectives, not military objectives." He adds that the Vietnamese people should have local elections and a referendum in November 1966 and national elections a year later. It is a neat little package, spoon-fed to Brooke by several Harvard professors...
...Outlook. The stock market's bulls have been frustrated for more than a year because every substantial rise has been nipped by scare talk fanning fears of a business downturn in the months ahead. A year ago, the market was sent tumbling from 940 to 841, after the Fed's Bill Martin compared the modern economy with that of the giddy 1920s. Last February, the market climbed to a record 995 and seemed headed toward 1,000, but talk of tight money and tougher taxes again sent it down...
Concatenation of Cumshaw. Dodd's affairs have become the Dodd affair because of a muckraking series of articles by Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. On the basis of files fed to them by at least one disgruntled former assistant to Dodd, they charged that the white-haired, square-jawed former FBI agent accepted a concatenation of cumshaw from all manner of individuals and companies seeking official favors from him. The payola, claimed the columnists, included a sapphire ring for his wife, a television set for his office, shoes for some of his family, carpeting for his house...