Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receiving line of these questionable hurlers will be a pair of questionable catchers. Sheperd has used last year's receiver Joe O'Donnell to plug a large gap at first base, leaving Jeff Hall and Bill Cobb behind the plate. Hall has had freshman and junior varsity experience; Cobb was ineligible last season. Sheperd describes the pair unenthusiastically as "adequate...
...farmers feel that they have been left out of the national prosperity, and statistics support them-up to a point. Though the income gap has narrowed since 1960, the average farmer can still expect to make only two-thirds as much as a city worker. While most big, efficient farm operators are thriving, the small, family farmer is increasingly being squeezed out by high costs and the big capital outlay that a modern farm demands ($30,000 for each farm worker v. $25,000 for each worker in industry). As a result, the number of farms has decreased...
...Humphrey-and Senator Robert Kennedy followed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the National Farmers Union convention in Oklahoma City. Speaking for the Administration, Humphrey pledged farmers an "honest deal" in Washington. "It is time," he said, "that the American farmer received a fair share of our national prosperity. The gap between farm income and income in other parts of our economy-the prosperity gap-must be eliminated." It made fine campaign oratory, but the truth is that the Johnson Administration can do only so much in the face of the harsh eco nomic facts that are making the small, family...
...needed water for crop irrigation. He faces a terrifying task: keeping India's 500 million people from slipping into starvation if this year's crops fall below expectations-as they well may. -1ndia could go a long way toward closing its $1 billion a year trade gap if only it attracted more tourists. Indira selected an interesting man from an interesting state for the job. New Tourism Minister Karan Singh, 36, is the Maharajah of Kashmir and, as such, is the first Indian prince ever to serve in a Cabinet. His talents as a Sanskrit scholar, poet...
Europe must unite, Heath told a Sanders Theatre audience in his second Godkin Lecture, to strengthen its economy and to close the technology gap that exists between Europe...