Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DONALD L. SINGER Evanston, Ill...
Social security was mostly an emergency act in a nation still struggling out of the depths of a depression in which, in F.D.R.'s famed phrase, more than one-third of the nation was "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." The change since then in American life has never been more apparent than last week, when Congress acted on two bills that projected a new sort of welfare state beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams. First, the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate, where it faces certain swift approval, the Johnson Administration's $6 billion...
...open and 120 members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe's two "bodyguards" grimly stationed himself at the main exit. As he did, a young, sullen-faced dancer in an ill-fitting grey suit drifted away from the group. Then, suddenly hurrying his pace, he disappeared into the swarm of travelers. The second bodyguard gave chase, frantically pawed his way through the crowd until he found the dancer hiding behind a pillar. "I won't go!" the dancer screamed...
...promising to remain "a missionary to the heathen of Capitol Hill," in between slashing out at the New-Deal, lend-lease, farm-price supports, the U.N., civil rights and foreign aid, while serving on the House committees on Un-American Activities, and Ways and Means; in Joliet, Ill...
...hustled on to a strange freighter, destination unknown. Aboard ship, the strangeness continues. An officer announces that for the present the stern of the vessel must be barred to passengers for technical reasons. What reasons? The officer explains to them that two of the ship's company are ill with a rare form of typhus. The passengers split into two distrustful groups-one angrily determined to find the freighter's secret, the other willing to accept the typhus explanation and make the best of the well-stocked bar. As the voyage broods on to mutiny, the division widens...