Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past eight years, the cost of Government agricultural programs has run between $4 billion and $7 billion, ranking only behind national defense and interest on the national debt as the biggest item in the budget. Kennedy claimed that his program would cut Government costs by many millions. He proposed the most rigorous system of production controls in the history of U.S. farming. And he threatened farmers-and their Congressmen-with what has long been a political unmentionable: greatly reduced price supports, or none at all, in the inconceivable event that they refuse controls...
...continued. Last week Colonel Jean Leroy's anti-S.A.O. commando unit was nearly wiped out in its hideaway villa at El Biar on the heights above Algiers. Leroy made the bureaucratic mistake of ordering typewriters from a supply house. When the crates arrived, they contained an unexpected item-a 20-lb. dynamite bomb which exploded ten minutes after arrival, reducing the villa to four shattered Moorish pillars and a pile of rubble. The blast reportedly killed 18 of Leroy's men and four S.A.O. prisoners in the cellar...
...financial pages of U.S. newspapers last week appeared a brief personnel item announcing the appointment of Harvey C. Russell, 43, as vice president in charge of special markets for the Pepsi-Cola Co. Harvey Russell, for twelve years Pepsi's Negro sales specialist, is the company's first Negro vice president...
...peril point clause requires the President to submit to the Tariff Commission a confidential list of all items on which he proposes to cut tariffs. The commission* then suggests the lowest tariffs it considers possible on each item without imperiling domestic industries. The President is not bound by the commission's recommendations, but if he disregards them he must make lengthy explanations to Congress. In practice, the process is so complex that only on rare occasions have the peril point findings of the Tariff Commission been overruled...
...election. Impatient for action and convinced that "the only solution is bullets," he flew to Morocco last October to hatch a rebel lion against the durable Dr. Salazar. Delgado-made 18 futile attempts to sneak into Portugal, finally decided he needed a passport, a readily available item in wide-open Casablanca. The Colombian, French, Italian and U.S. passports offered to him by dealers were too expensive, but somehow he got hold of a Portuguese passport. "I found it on the street," he says with a straight face. While the plotters inside Portugal postponed the uprising from...