Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. ranch with word that the President might request a tax increase of as much as $15 billion. Lyndon Johnson dismissed the report, sniffing that "guesses will be made from time to time-that is a democratic privilege." Next, Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, flew down to Austin with a report as bright as the Texas sun: 1967, he said, should bring a "more balanced, moderate kind of growth," with fewer slowdowns or inflationary pressures. Did this mean that there would not be a tax increase? Said the President: "We have to weigh all the facts...
When Sharon's twin sister Valerie was murdered in the Percy mansion at Kenilworth outside of Chicago in September, young Rockefeller immediately chartered a plane and flew to Sharon's side. He was, said a friend of the family, a "pillar of strength" to Sharon, who had been sleeping in a bedroom just yards away from where her sister was slain...
...wrong. The Luftwaffe's Starfighters rained down from the skies, generals resigned, a U-boat sank, prices rose. Worst of all, estimates for the 1967 budget showed a $1.5 billion deficit, largely because of huge purchases of U.S. weaponry. By law, German budgets must balance. So in September, Erhard flew off to Washington in hopes that President Johnson would agree to a reduction of the arms purchases, which were intended to offset the cost of maintaining U.S. Forces in West Germany. President Johnson plainly decided that the U.S. needed the deutsche marks more than Erhard needed help. As Erhard jetted...
...camera in working order during long intervals when Orbiter was not over one of the possible landing sites. Though NASA did not release any of the other housekeeping shots by week's end, an astronomer who was allowed to see them reported that those taken while the satellite flew over the moon's back side showed "an eerie character that we've never seen before...
...about 2,000 students cut classes, and roughly 7,000 gathered in the rain for a noontime rally to cheer Savio's strike call. The rainfall and the imminence of this week's quarterly exams also contributed to the absences. The strike organizers demanded that Heyns, who flew back to the campus, promise never again to call police out to handle campus "political" problems, drop all charges against those arrested, accept an entirely new form of student government. Heyns, waiting for emotions to cool, made no promises, but blamed the agitation on outsiders. Berkeley, he said, "can resolve...