Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lights. Seldom had John Kennedy worked so hard on a speech. His favorite speechwriter, Presidential Assistant Ted Sorensen, produced four drafts, each including a number of alternative demands that Kennedy eventually put aside. Until the day before he spoke, the President had planned to ask for a tax hike, rather than let the budget deficit rise higher. But Budget Director David Bell, Economic Adviser Walter Heller and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that the economy was strong enough to stand the added debt, and that new taxes might well slow the recovery from last winter's recession. Kennedy finally...
...national security, President Kennedy will at long last ask for the specific sacrifices that he urged the U.S. to make in his Inauguration Speech. The new programs will cost more than $3 billion. Rather than risk inflation by further deficit spending, the President will ask Congress for a tax hike-and Congress will be hard put to refuse...
...city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most of the money was going down by the riverside. Worse still, unless costs were cut, the city would have to forego a big urban renewal project or face either a deficit or a tax hike. So last month Mitchell and the council put together a tough new 13-point code aimed at stopping relief chiseling. Among the code's provisions: a three-month limitation on relief payments, except for the physically handicapped and the aged; unmarried mothers who bore any more illegitimate children would...
Harrison Pendleton Bresee Jr., 30, whose father raises Herefords near tiny Orange, Va. Bresee is an ex-G.I. who got his forestry degree from the University of the South in 1956, then "just took off" to thumb and hike his way through much of Africa, Asia and Europe for four years. He used a beard, a bit of French and a cast-iron stomach to impress African tribesmen, figures he already knows the secret of getting along in Tanganyika (which he visited): "They accept you if you sit down and eat with them." Fond of Africans and their wildlife...
...dilapidated Yard, lacking the intellectual life of the Houses and suffering from compulsory PT, naturally commiserated. An unsuccessful riot--"Fight Mental Health"--expressed 1961's dissatisfaction during the freshman year spring; a flu epidemic, Coach John M. Yovicsin's disappointing first season with the balanced-T, and a tuition hike added further woes. The members of the class could also take perverse pride in an academic record Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy von Stade deemed "disappointing, and, to a great extent, baffling." 1961 placed the lowest percentages on the Dean's List in ten years--35.3 per cent--and gained...