Word: halts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view from a peak in New York's Catskill Mountains. After lingering on the mountaintop at the Belleayre Ski Center, 16-year-old Ruth Fried man and her 19-year-old companion, Jack Katz, decided to return. Partway down, the lift suddenly rumbled to a halt. The attendant had presumably closed the lift for the day, and no one heard the couple's shouts...
...group, numbering approximately 2000, asked Governor Sargent to halt highway construction, withdraw all highway plans now in Washington, and, with citizens participating, begin a review of the transportation plans in Greater Boston...
Nixon, of course, can revise the proposed budget. Though he and President Johnson conferred by telephone for 40 minutes shortly before Johnson gave his State of the Union speech, Nixon is only tentatively committed to extending the 10% income surtax for another year. Because Nixon is pledged to halt inflation, however, he will find it doubly difficult to end the surtax and thus erase the deflationary surplus Johnson hopes to create. Johnson asked an overall 13% increase in social security benefits; in the campaign, Nixon proposed to tie social security payments to a cost-of-living index so that benefits...
...Jolt. In most essentials, the Nixon Administration and the independent Federal Reserve Board seem to agree. To halt inflation, said Secretary of the Treasury-designate David Kennedy last week, "we must maintain a tight budget and a restrictive monetary policy." The Federal Reserve has gone to considerable lengths lately to proclaim its intent to curb credit gradually...
...ready to proceed. Then late last month after only nine days of shooting, the director, 58, was overcome with exhaustion and forced to withdraw from the film. Said Kurosawa's wife, "My husband is no longer young." Unable to replace the irreplaceable, Fox has announced that it will halt production to give Kurosawa time to recover. Even without Tora! Tora! Tora!, Kurosawa has already produced a body of work-Red Beard is an integral part-that has assured his reputation as one of the monumental moviemakers of all time. He himself has said, "It is quite enough...