Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointedly denied it, the notion is very much like a guaranteed income-with one'crucial difference. For the ablebodied, willingness to accept "suitable" employment or vocational training would be the quid for the quo of assistance. In essence, Nixon notified the nation that his Administration is prepared to help those of the nation's 9.7 million relief recipients who try to help themselves...
Official Curiosity. Dinis' role in the investigation has been at best inconsistent. A flamboyantly aggressive lawyer and ambitious Democratic politician, Dinis has had cool relations with the Kennedys. They have declined to help him in his campaigns for higher office. Yet initially he remained aloof from the case, even declining to order an autopsy when the body was still in his legal jurisdiction. He made no move for an inquest or thorough investigation while witnesses were still in easy reach. Official curiosity overcame Dinis only after the press demanded more information and a national mood of skepticism about...
...presidential ambitions, for the time being at least. Last week Muskie, 55, announced that he was tackling the other problem by forming two new groups of advisers. One will be a Washington-based circle of generalists with whom Muskie will meet, perhaps as often as once a week, to help stimulate his thinking and to keep him up to date on a variety of national concerns. The second group will include lawyers, economists and an assortment of professors around the country who will do research and writing chores for him. The purpose, says Ed Muskie, is "to educate Ed Muskie...
...looked like a battlefield up there." Police said that every room in the house showed signs of a struggle. The victims appeared to have been dead for about twelve hours when they were discovered in the morning by a maid, Winifred Chapman, who ran screaming to neighbors for help. "This is a tough one," a detective said at first. "We don't have anything but bodies." But the police soon had more than that. They arrested William Garretson, 19, a caretaker who lived in a guesthouse on the property, and booked him for the quintuple slaying...
...success of the visit may help Kiesinger politically at home. He needs it. National elections are scheduled for Sept. 28, and recent polls show that Kiesinger's long-dominant Christian Democrats have been losing ground to the rival Social Democrats. The pictures of the German Chancellor on the steps of the White House with a smiling Dick Nixon may help reverse the trend...