Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declined, mostly because the Kennedys were asking for final-review rights of the book. Someone recalled that Jack Kennedy had spoken favorably of Manchester, whose 1962 Portrait of a President was a glowing-one reviewer called it "adoring"-tribute to J.F.K. Manchester, 44, an exMarine, agreed to the conditions laid down by the Kennedys...
...housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue can be relied upon to commit no injustice to the general. He can also be relied upon to use no fresh trope when the combat-tested cliché is available. But the book is read able for those who like the record plainly laid...
...major social initiatives of recent times, none, I think, arose more directly from academic research and evaluation than did the War on Poverty. Much of the basis for the program, for example, was laid by the careful economic analysis carried out in the 1950's by the Subcommittee on Low Income Families of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report. This attachment to research and evaluation was carried over into the operations of the Office of Economic Opportunity itself under the courageous and forceful leadership of Mr. Sargent Shriver. Surely one of the most attractive products of this process...
...family in the nation, or every poor family, that the best thing would be to give them the cash and let them spend it on things they think they need most, which might well be formal education for many, but is surely to be more varied than any formula laid down in Washington would permit...
From the Formula. The base for these royalty riches was laid in 1881 when Dr. Joseph Joshua Lawrence, a St. Louis physician who worked out the secret formula for Listerine, decided to retire. The canny doctor sold his formula for Listerine and, four years later, for another remedy called Lithiated Hydrangea, to fellow St. Louisan Jordan W. Lambert. In the deal, Lawrence got a royalty for each gross (144 bottles) of Listerine that was first set at $20; this was later scaled down to $6 on sales of either preparation. Lithiated Hydrangea has disappeared-but Listerine sales spiraled after Lambert...