Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sick of Washington's sultry heat and weary after a long session, the members of the 87th Congress drove toward an adjournment that still seemed a week or two away. Last week's major Capitol Hill action came in the House. There, by a vote of 270 to 123, the homesick legislators passed and sent to the Senate a $3,657,500,000 foreign aid appropriation...
Much of the violence was clearly a summer's-end, preschool spree. And in Manhattan-where nine policemen were hurt attempting to control the crowd that turned out for an annual West Indies Day parade in Harlem-the nerve-shreddingly humid heat was mostly to blame for trouble. But not all the rebellion could be explained away by back-to-books excesses or hot weather. The U.S. juvenile delinquency rate was up 6% last year over 1959, has more than doubled over the last twelve years. In Houston, where there has been little juvenile delinquency in recent years, police...
...without many more tests. Even farther away is the much-discussed neutron bomb, which promises to be a small, short-range H-bomb exploded by some other means than the usual "dirty" fission detonator. Its proponents believe that it will kill people by neutrons while its feeble blast and heat will do little damage to property. But before it can be added to the U.S. arsenal, the neutron bomb will require a long and intensive series of tests...
...Tough Way. In the heat of battle, when persuasion fails. O'Brien is perfectly willing to play it the tough way. When Louisiana's penny-pinching Representative Otto Passman decided to block a $600 million request for Latin American aid money in his House appropriations subcommittee, O'Brien's operatives went quietly behind his back, lined up enough votes to pass the bill over the chairman's objection; Passman eventually voted for the appropriation himself, rather than have it known he could not control his committee. Again, during the aid-to-education debate, Chicago...
...Travell, who won her White House position by reason of her treatments for Back Patient Jack Kennedy, assured Mister Sam that his pain would disappear with heat packs and perhaps some rest back at his Texas ranch. But the House was not so sanguine; Rayburn's many friends were especially disturbed by the fact that he was recently unable to make an important floor speech on behalf of the Administration's foreign aid bill...