Word: jammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind up the Depression-born public-housing program, by 1963 to require cities and states to go halves (instead of one-third) on the land costs...
...second period began, with Guryshev scoring again at 0:16 on a screen shot from between the circles. A few minutes later, the Russian center picked up his third goal when, after Pratt had stopped his first shot from the right, he picked it up and fired through a jam-up in front of the goal to make the score...
Cordiner's carefully regulated, jam-packed life, relieved occasionally by golf (low 80s) or deep-sea fishing, is the product of a near obsession about time-the "fourth dimension in a corporation-beyond men, money and materials." When a G.E. executive recently suggested a 1963 deadline for a project, Cordiner asked for 1959. Says he: "That way we stand a good chance of getting it by 1961. Otherwise, we might...
Timex All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.)." Just like the three previous all-star jam sessions. A real hep crew-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa-blasting out cool tunes...
...help restless kids enjoy the present ("Jam Today"), Pat soberly urges them to act their ages. They can become "useful, happy, well-adjusted individuals," he says, if they make out a check list of "maturity" goals that he uses himself. Its divisions: Spiritual (follow the Bible, "the best, truest-the only"); Social (follow the Golden Rule, or "treat Joe the way you'd like him to treat you"); Mental ("New ideas and theories, new inventions, new concepts, new knowledge itself, come from thinkers. You might think about that for a while"); Physical ("I can remember that Daddy always smelled...