Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast could handle a senior-class play. Instead of drawing from the pool of New York's unparalleled acting talent, Lincoln Center has chosen to import too many of the San Francisco minor-leaguers of Irving-cum-Blau. All this grandiose amateur night lacks is the famous gong of Major Bowes...
...month high in June and were a major factor in the 2.2% rise in wholesale prices during the year's first half, dropped in August for the second straight month, thanks to a bountiful harvest and beneficent weather. Steel demand tapered as the strike threat faded, and import competition remained stiff, serving to dampen any inclination toward rises in basic steel prices. Industrial investment this year will scale an alltime peak of $50 billion; that will expand capacity and reduce pressure on marginal plant. One powerful psychological brake to inflation: General Motors' decision to hold the line...
Computerized Bureaucracy. L.B.J. named another Negro, Hobart Taylor Jr., to the board of the Export-Import Bank. Taylor, 45, has been serving as an associate special counsel to the President. A third Negro, Clifford Alexander, succeeds Taylor in the White House post; only 32 years old, Alexander graduated from Harvard cum laude, took a law degree at Yale, has been deputy special assistant to the President since last year. L.B.J. also appointed David G. Bress, 57, a practicing lawyer in Washington for 30 years, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia...
...problems about world commodity prices; as it is, the U.S. is accused of "dumping" surpluses on nations that would go hungry without them. Moreover, most countries receiving this aid, such as India, which took 20% of the entire U.S. grain crop last year-and needed more-are unable to import available grain for lack of handling and storage facilities...
...economic integration study unit−its first branch office in Latin America.) As for sagging commodity prices, Johnson promised to strengthen the international coffee agreement and seek ways to stabilize the cocoa market. That very afternoon, he added, he would ask Congress to eliminate the 1?-per-lb. sugar-import fee−which would guarantee Latinos another $40 million a year in sugar revenues...