Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recuperation continued-L.B.J. style. Though the President's throat was still sore from the removal of the polyp on his vocal cord, he held lengthy, vigorous phone conversations with Administration leaders in Washington. The President stayed in his room late some mornings, but he was not, it was explained, being a slugabed. Propped up on pillows, he labored over intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, and of course the federal budget. The word went out from the ranch that $1.1 billion-25% of the $4.4 billion total allocated-would be chopped from the federal highway program, an economy move that...
...years since, much has altered in Arkansas-all for the better. A ground swell of technological advance, already under way in the late '50s, has progressed to the point where industry now plays a major role in the economy, population is rising rather than shrinking, about 50% of the state's 2,000,000 people now live in cities and towns, and an estimated 30% of the population is accounted for by in-migration...
...alert was too late to reduce most factory fumes and did little to deter motorists from flocking to the city for the traditional post-Thanksgiving buying splurge. The break finally came, not because of the alert measures, but from evening showers that washed the dirty air. By week's end the inversion layer was breaking up as the westerly wind returned to sweep clean the skies...
...Labor Party, he has exhibited a quick and imaginative mind, an instinctive gift for finding new approaches to problems and a flair for efficient administration. After years of representing the powerful trade unions in Parliament, Brown was made the party's deputy leader in 1960 by the late Hugh Gaitskell. When Gaitskell died, Brown was the logical choice for the leadership, but quickly ran into competition from Harold Wilson. Wilson finally beat out Brown in what Laborites quipped was less a contest of favorites than a tally of which man had made the fewest enemies...
Perkins, with its towers, trees and quadrangles, looks like an Ivy League college. It is quieter. There are only a few people outside; almost everyone attends classes until late afternoon. A young girl walks along a pebble path, using a cane to guide herself. A boy, perhaps eight years old, sits on a step, staring...