Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swinging Group. As with all grand designs, execution is far more difficult than enunciation. The necessity to check spending, for instance, will inhibit proposals for expensive new federal activities. But some White House aides believe that there are other ways to inject new interest into the old Great Society pitch. Instead of merely claiming credit for previous accomplishments and promising more of the same, Johnson, they believe, should point up his campaign with the "incremental approach." This prescribes the setting of firm goals, timetables and priorities-for instance, the fractional reduction of pollutants in the air by a certain date...
...three months, the newspaper had four reporters looking into rumors of shady dealings in the award of a $12 million construction contract for a world trade center at Los Angeles harbor. Yorty called the resulting exposé an attempt to smear him and asked for a grand-jury investigation. The grand jury obliged. Its verdict: a 15-count indictment charging perjury and bribery against four present and former commissioners, all appointed by Yorty...
...Evidently alarmed by the angry charges of anti-Semitism that followed his attack on Israel at last month's press conference, De Gaulle wrote a three-page justification of his remarks to former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. He had really meant it as a compliment, said le grand Charles, when he described the Jews as "an elite, sure of themselves and domineering." De Gaulle likes people who fit that description...
...Negro. "It's his war. Let him fight it. The Viet Nam war is for the birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...
...recent federal grand jury indictments of Michael Ferber 2G, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr. sparked this debate on the war, resistance to the draft, and the future of the protest movement...