Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson, too, who was personally responsible for the most controversial item in the communique-Point 29-pledging an allied troop withdrawal six months after "the other side" withdrew its forces, infiltration was ended and the level of violence had subsided. The point was designed to allay fears in other capitals that the U.S. has no intention of pulling out of Southeast Asia. Even more, it was designed to answer those statesmen-most notably France's Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-who have urged the U.S. to offer a specific timetable for withdrawal...
Observing the accelerating pace of state and local government spending-up 125% in the past decade and now about equal to federal spending, excluding outlays for such items as pensions and interest payments-the President's economists saw a ready target for the economy ax. They argued that many state and local expenditures were not essential and could be deferred until the economy was under less inflationary pressure. But what looks deferrable to Washington bureaucrats looks ten years too late to officials of cities and states that have felt the full force of the postwar population expansion. Though...
...costliest item in most campaign budgets is TV. Half an hour of prime time in New York City costs at least $75,000. Elsewhere, congressional candidates pay $2,000 or more for a one-shot, one-minute spiel-in which, understandably, they tend to decry the high cost of living. TV politicking has progressed from the soapbox to the spectacular. The image-conscious candidate today is not content merely to exhort or debate in a studio. To hold his audience, he commandeers dramatic vignettes and perky musical numbers. In Congress, many incumbents studiously identify themselves with the controversial issues that...
MOZART: EXSULTATE, JUBILATE (Seraphim). Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in a performance that has become a collector's item in the years since it was first released in 1954. Her hallelujahs are triumphant in the Mozart motet and then shower forth brilliantly again in the Bach cantata, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen...
...those interested in further facts re your PEOPLE item [Aug. 26], here they are: In 1960 1 offered $1,500,000 to the city of New York for the purpose of building a sidewalk cafe at the east end of Central Park South, near Fifth Avenue. Every relevant department of the city accepted the gift. I deposited over $800,000 with the city, as good faith, where it remained until recently without earning interest. I paid an architect fee of over $100,000 to Edward Stone...