Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirk (to crowd): "Quiet, quiet. May I have your attention." The chants grow louder, drowning out Kirk...
...price to the U.S. has been substantial as well. More than 12,400 Americans have died. Nearly 500,000 men are in South Viet Nam, and the number will grow. The dollar cost now runs some $25 billion a year. While this tremendous investment has denied Hanoi and the Viet Cong hegemony in the South, the U.S. and the Saigon government have also been unable to win effective control. General Harold Johnson, Army Chief of Staff and a man not given to hyperbole, said last week in Saigon that he sniffed a "smell of success," that the enemy was choosing...
...years, the Sun-Times has forged ahead with an increase of 13,583, bringing its circulation to 548,162. Although both morning dailies are making money, it is estimated that the afternoon papers are losing a combined total of $8,000,000 a year. That loss is bound to grow as production costs continue to escalate and the papers pour more money into the fight...
...artists, can lay claim to being the art center of the world. But almost to a man, artists are plagued by a common problem: lack of light and space big enough to serve as studios. The fact that the art community continues to swell and that works these days grow ever larger only exacerbates the problem. To get a space big enough to work in, Painter Mark Rothko, for instance, once took over the gymnasium of a no longer used Bowery high school. Helen Frankenthaler, who ordinarily works out of an East Side brownstone, had to hire a theater...
...Administration economist observed last month that if there were no Vietnam war the Federal government would have a budget surplus rather than a deficit. But there is a Vietnam war, and as military expenses grow interminably, the government anticipates a deficit of $29 billion for fiscal 1968. A deficit this large causes an excessive stimulus on the economy, and for that reason President Johnson asked Congress in early August to approve a temporary 10 per cent surcharge on income taxes for both individuals and corporations. He hopes this surcharge and other fiscal proposals will reduce the deficit by $11 billion...