Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virus x seems to be hardest on young adults and those in middle life. The virologists checked everything in their culture tubes and were still baffled. About the only advice doctors could feel certain of was: do not go back to work too soon...
Almost five years after she married Monaco's Prince Rainier III, Princess Grace, 32, told a Parade correspondent: "I know people think I lie around on a chaise longue eating grapes, but my job here is the hardest I've ever had-and the most complicated." Working a 16-hour day in their 200-room palace, she is now a plumper (by 10 lbs.) and darker blonde mother of two, wears glasses for nearsightedness, and denies rumors of a cinema comeback. "I don't like to use the word never," she says, "because who knows what will...
...full-fledged recession," barked Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg as he swept through five of the hardest-hit states in a headline-catching tour. "If we don't take the proper action, we'll be in a depression." Avowed purpose of Goldberg's "nonpolitical" mission was to solicit bipartisan support for President Kennedy's plan to pass a depressed areas bill, grant $1.2 billion in federal subsidies to extend the duration of unemployment benefits and aid the children of the unemployed. To a cheering audience of Gary steelworkers, longtime United Steelworkers Counsel Goldberg said grandly: "In years...
...rest of the Ivy League, however, there has been a considerable drop in the number of prospective students. Yale and Princeton report a decrease of five to ten per cent, while Amherst's applications lag more than 20 per cent behind last year. Cornell was hardest hit of all, with reportedly 3000 fewer applications than...
Long Range. Beyond his short-range proposals to spur recovery and aid the recession's hardest-hit victims, Kennedy also unfurled some long-span programs that cheered businessmen. He urged cheaper long-term loans to spur capital investment; at the same time he hoped to firm short-term interest rates to stem the flow of gold to countries where rates are more attractive. The two goals are "contradictory," Kennedy admitted, and achieving them would require all the wizardry of Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Democratic Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. Kennedy went on to speak...