Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proud Daddy. Hardly anyone had a legitimate protest to offer. In the House debate on the medicare bill, Iowa Republican H. R. Gross forced Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and floor manager for the measure, to admit that he had "overlooked" a relatively small cost factor. No matter. Without amendment, the House passed the bill by a vote of 313 to 115, and at the announcement of the tally Democrats rose to their feet with a great shout. Speaker John McCormack rushed up to Mills, grabbed his hand and cried: "Congratulations, my dear friend...
...University" people on the Committee is Norton Long, a Brandeis professor and a member of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. Long heads the special research subcommittee, which will attempt to break down the gross statistics that the committee now possesses. With unemployment figures, for example, Long's group will try to find out how many people were unemployed because of old age, how many because of poor education, how many because of disability, how many because of alcholism...
What the French cinema was being defended against was the tax-greedy government. Though the exhibitors seemed to be cutting off their gross to spite their face, they were also cutting off-with the only and most dramatic means available-the 24% of that gross sluiced away in a special tax. "The survival of French cinema is at stake," declared Director René Clair. And though the industry suffers from many ills, he continued, "the worst problem right now is this taxation." Clair's polemics came at a wellrehearsed, Defend French Cinema Day press conference that was followed...
...daydream dimensions pose in the front yard of a Maine summer home, while an artist and his easel stand on the rooftop, projecting above the frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking while a gross, pipe-puffing man in galoshes and a checkered coat ambles by through the Styrofoam snow in wood-cutout make-believe. Grooms's cartoon vision stems from reality. To do the snow scene, he sketched a Manhattan street corner during a blizzard until his fingers were stiff with cold...
...China. Glittering Vienna, which has more high-priced jewelry stores and high-calorie pastry shops than any other continental city, is a compelling advertisement for capitalism to the thousands of Eastern Europeans who visit it every year. Last week the Austrian National Bank announced that the country's gross national product jumped 10% in 1964, to $8.8 billion, and the Austrians began negotiating in Brussels for some form of alliance with the Common Market...