Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Members of the House, who had ex pressed great skepticism before approv ing the creation of the Administration's Peace Corps a year ago, wholeheartedly praised the Corps while voting 316-70 to increase its personnel from 2,400 to 6,700, boost its budget from $30 million...
average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved "puffing billies" will yield to gaseous diesels or electric locomotives, and the aromatic privacy of the old first-class passenger compartment will give way to open, air-conditioned cars with central aisles, airliner seats and Muzak...
Where's the Standout? Washington feels uneasy because business is expand ing only about one-fourth as fast as it did at the beginning of the recovery. Two-thirds of the current recovery was made in the four months from March through June of 1961 v. only one-third in the eight months from July through February...
...avoids the smugness of the satisfied satirist - "the world is disgusting (but I am clever)." In fact there are no personal obtrusions, nothing of the gracious, 70-year-old Southern gentlewoman who in the 20 years since her last book has seemed to occupy herself chiefly with be ing a charming chatterer at literary gather ings. Her testament is objective and her verdict is unemotional: the world is a place of foulness and fools...
...ing farewell last night at the Quinase Africa Forum, he told an audience of six that the chaos in the Congo caused by the intense desire of the ese for change, coupled with the trained leadership...