Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill generate as much fear and frustration as Congressman John James Rooney. In the 17 years that he has chaired the powerful House Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and related agencies, the diminutive Democrat from Brooklyn has made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates...
After a survey of businessmen's plans, the investment-advisory firm of Lionel D. Edie & Co. predicted that capital investment in 1969 will grow more than 7%. Last month the McGraw-Hill Survey projected an 8% gain. In its December issue, FORTUNE suggested that capital spending may rise 5% next year, though the increase might just about match the rise in capital-goods prices. Last week the Government joined the chorus of optimism. In the latest of a series of generally reliable surveys, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission projected a growth...
WARREN G. HARDING IN HIS TIMES by Francis Russell. 691 pages. McGraw-Hill...
Taking another step away from the traditional page, one can impose additional meaning on words and letters by organizing them in pictorial images. Apollinaire did this, as do the concrete poets. McClelland works in this genre with Dylan Thomas' words from "Fern Hill...
Yellow Submarine--A good cartoon about the Beatles not to be confused either with The Road Runner or Joyce's Ulysses. The drawing leans overly on contemporary advertising art, but the 85 minutes are provocative and occasionally moving. At the BEACON HILL, Tremont between Beacon St. & ovt. Center...