Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks ago, beset by the threats of strikes among Italy's teachers and civil servants, Premier Antonio Segni passed out an average raise of 12% to every civil servant-an annual total of $425 million. Compared to Italy's gross national product, this generous gesture was equivalent to raising the cost of government in the U.S. by $7 billion at one stroke. Everybody agrees that 1) Italian civil servants are underpaid, 2) Italy's 1,000,000-man bureaucracy is inefficient, cumbersome. Segni, before raising the pay, had had parliamentary permission to change the system...
...through Orthodox districts on the holy day is apt to hear an outraged cry of "Sabbath" from the curb. Yet the prevailing spirit in Israel remains the old-fashioned buoyancy of 19th century Zionist Socialism, with all its emphasis on sentimental nationalism, Utopian pioneering of the land, and a generous belief in the nature of man. Israel's 300,000 elementary-school children attend either religious or "general" schools. In the one case they learn the Bible as God's Word, in the other more as folk literature. But always it remains at the forefront of the classroom...
President Eisenhower's emergency message to Congress on federal aid to school construction is not only more generous than his program of eleven months ago, but far more realistic. The financial recommendations are no longer completely inadequate, and the conditions which make a locality eligible for aid no longer approach federal control. The only string which the President ties to the federal grants of $250,000,000 a year for five years is need. Although the bill, which also promises federal purchase of $750,000,000 of school construction bonds, failed to meet either educators' hopes or Democratic proposals...
Views: Like Eden, who was his tutor. Lloyd is a dedicated believer in dogged negotiation. But he entertains no illusions about the Russians and is a generous defender of the U.S. Says he: "Provided our two countries stand together on essentials, there is no limit to what we can do for the world and for ourselves, but if we fall apart or if we are forced apart, there is no danger that might not befall us and the world...
Soft Touch. To Isthmians, Bilgray has always been a generous citizen as well as a storied saloonkeeper. He shelled out thousands to the needy, fed the down-and-out with the Tropic's free lunch, paid fares home for the stranded, lent as much as $5,000 on a few moments' notice. Selling out meant burning $40,000 in old chits. But when a sob story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias...