Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Laird, who in public invariably gives the relaxed impression that his hair shirt must have a silk lining, was hard at work at his job while most of Washington was on holiday. Conforming to the President's marching orders for the attack on inflation and to the realities of congressional skepticism, he announced new military-budget cutbacks that will eventually amount to $3 billion. The measures were an artful melange of reductions already taken and some for the future, and he accompanied them with the warning that they would cause an "inevitable weakening of our worldwide military posture...
...hard to object to this rise in political standards; yet perfection has its limits. The man entrusted with high public office today operates under unprecedented strain: he may well feel personally responsible for the survival of much of the human race in the nuclear age. More than ever, he needs the kind of private release that the open frontier once provided. A successful politician often possesses immense energy that needs to be released. The obscure private citizen can lose control of himself in public. Nobody but his friends will care. The man in public life must exercise iron control...
...year has already suffered a good deal of depreciation; in a few weeks it will be "last year's car," worth about $700 less for a compact and $2,000 less for some luxury models. During the next few weeks and months, the alert consumer can drive some hard bargains. The bargains may never live up to their billing as "the best deal yet," but there are certain guides to saving money...
...pound, has enabled Zambia to maintain a favorable balance of payments in recent years. Any decline in copper prices as a result of an end of the war in Viet Nam, the discovery of new sources, or the increased use of other minerals, would hit Zambia hard...
Died. Lieut. General George Stratemeyer, 78, one of the country's foremost air tacticians; of a heart attack; in Orlando, Fla. A veteran of the Burma and China campaigns during World War II, Stratemeyer pushed hard for a strong peacetime Air Force, and as commander in the Far East during the Korean War, he quickly established U.N. air superiority over the Communists...