Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration, which maintains that it is self-defeating to make any concessions in advance of negotiations, called in the heavy artillery. Under Secretary of State George Ball said the idea would lead "in a very short time" to a Communist government in Saigon. White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy reminded Bobby of what his late brother had said in a 1963 Berlin speech: "I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger." United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg warned against giving up "all your points...
...meeting with Wirtz. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats. "I'm quite sure the labor movement is prepared to make its own way politically," harrumphed the old Bronx plumber. "I don't buy the idea that we have no place to go. Some of the Democrats seem to have the idea that we've got to go along with them...
Weaver also revived the long-dormant idea of federal rent subsidies for the ailing and aged. That proposal narrowly passed the Congress last year, but the eligibility regulations were so carelessly written by the HHFA that "hardship" cases with as much as $25,000 in net assets could have qualified for rent help. Congress refused to appropriate funds for it, and many people thought that Weaver had thereby destroyed his chances of becoming HUD Secretary. Weaver now airily dismisses it all as "purely a printer's slip...
Expert Accident. In wartime 1942, Adams decided that his revolutionary battery had all sorts of potential military uses. When he offered it to the Army, though, every available expert rejected his idea as unvoltaic and unworkable. Indeed, no one yet knows exactly why the Adams battery works. But without ever telling the inventor, the Government secretly confirmed his claims and ordered at least 1,000,000 similar batteries. One version is used in meteorological balloons operating at temperatures that would freeze conventional batteries. Another version, activated by salt water, powers signal lights in the survival gear of military aviators...
...June 30, 1963, there were about 4,000 Volunteers in more than 40 countries, with another 2,000 in training. A year later more than 6,000 were at work over seas and another 4,000 in training. In three years the Peace Corps had evolved from a promising idea to a considerable force for assistance and incentive in developing countries...