Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is getting done on Capitol Hill, the rest of Congress might as well do the same. When the Congress did act, all too often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...
Cantankerous Birds. Like the ancient Romans who staked out Rome's Capitoline Hill with geese that would signal the approach of the invading Gauls, the Americans have recruited geese for early-warning duty on Saigon's bridges, which are choice targets for Communist demolition teams. The idea is that the cantankerous birds will start to honk madly as soon as someone approaches within 25 feet of their cages. To distinguish them from civilian geese-and to keep them from winding up in Vietnamese cooking pots-the birds have had their feathers dyed purple. Originally, the birds were issued...
Four months after her husband's assassination, Ethel Kennedy has settled back into the family's Hickory Hill estate in McLean, Va., to await the birth" of her eleventh child, expected around Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, she keeps busy on new plans to build a nondenominational chapel in memory of Robert Kennedy at Waterville Valley, N.H., where the family spent its last ski vacation together on Washington's Birthday. The $80,000 to $100,000 needed for the chapel, which will go up on a plateau looking out at one of the Senator's favorite ski slopes, will...
...third straight week, New York City's big school system remained immobilized by a teachers' strike. Ironically, schools in the neighborhood-run Brooklyn district at the center of the controversy were fully open. While police patrolled the streets around Ocean Hill-Brownsville's eight schools, children inside the building benefited from one of the nation's youngest, best-educated and most enthusiastic teaching staffs...
...single sign saying "No" is tolerated anywhere in the nation. Opposition is expressed only in hand made signs in remote corners where they might escape official notice. A monstrous blue neon sign reading "Yes" is perched on a hill overlooking the Acropolis right outside of Athens...