Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although he was the official Republican candidate, Volpe, aware that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 2 to 1, scarcely mentioned his affliation. Few of his posters contained any reference to the Republican party and Volpe's campaign slogan was "Vote the Man [i.e. rather than the party], Vote Volpe." The idea of placing a businessman at the head of government appealed greatly to a corruptionweary electorate as did Volpe's promises to investigate the charges of misconduct made against the Democratic administrations of the late...
...mounting to extend schooling two more years at the other end. Last month the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association proposed that "all children should have the opportunity to go to school at public expense beginning at the age of four." President Johnson promptly endorsed the idea, as did HEW Secretary John Gardner. With the Federal Government that committed, says one Washington educator, "the question is not whether -but when-it will come...
...idea is not new. The national P.T.A. has been urging earlier public schooling since 1898. The Federal Government financed nurseries to provide work for adult supervisors during the Depression and to free mothers for defense work in World War II. The current impetus to lower the school age stems from the general success-still largely statistical-of Project Head Start, which gave 560,000 "culturally disadvantaged" children from low income families eight weeks of preschool training last summer, will handle another 210,000 three-to-six-year-olds in a year-round program starting next fall...
...indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot or blown up," he wrote, "it is almost as good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder man proposed renaming an expressway after the Polish General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Royko explained why the idea would never work. "In fact, 98% of all policemen cannot spell it, so it would be impossible for anyone to get a ticket...
...road since March for John Han cock Mutual Life Insurance Co., the nation's fifth largest insurance firm. Using them, salesmen have so far written about $1,500,000 worth of policies for farmers and small-town businessmen. The man who conceived the idea had reason to believe that it would succeed. Robert E. Dye, 51, a John Hancock vice president, worked his way through the University of California as a Good Humor man, shifted the chocolate-coated sell from ice cream to insurance...