Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haven's very success, together with the glare of national publicity, may have contributed to the sense of frustration. People who lived in dilapidated housing in the largely Negro Hill and Dixwell areas may simply have grown tired of hearing that their city was doing more than any other to house its poor. To many, the gap between Weaver's dream and everyday reality became intolerable. "We've been telling the Negro that there's a new day," notes Mitchell Sviridoff, who left New Haven's poverty program last year to become head...
...Allow me to correct the inaccurate and rather damaging statement in your review of Under the Hill by Aubrey Beardsley and myself [Aug. 11], that the book contains "four-letter words." None of the half-dozen well-worn crudities implied by this expression can be found anywhere in the text. All our own words have at least seven letters...
...Means Committee did not exactly greet Fowler's message as Holy Writ. Their refractory mood was shared by most of their congressional co'leagues. With constituents' mail all but unanimously opposed to President Johnson's proposed 10% surcharge on corporate and personal income taxes, Capitol Hill was loudly unconvinced of the Administration's economic and political sagacity in seeking a tax boost this fall...
...squadron of aides and a stupefaction of statistics were the President's fiscal troika: Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles L. Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Gardner Ackley. At the outset, Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, whose opposition spells finis for any tax package on the Hill, noted ominously: "I regret exceedingly the circumstances that bring you here...
When asked at a Capitol Hill meeting with student interns last week if the Republicans could be the "party of peace," Romney replied: "The Republican Party is going to pursue those programs that they believe will produce peace in Viet Nam on a sound basis as soon as possible." At a Lansing press conference, he went so far as to describe U.S. involvement in Viet Nam as a "tragic" mistake. "All of Southeast Asia is at stake today," he declared. "It wasn't initially. It wasn't before we built this thing...