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...contributions to rising productivity." Then he cited three Government actions: "In 1961 the Administration's quick antirecession program got recovery off to a flying start; in 1962, in sharp contrast to 1960 and 1957, rising federal purchases, new tax incentives to investment, and continued credit ease lent a steadying hand to an economy whose advance was faltering; in 1963, prospects of a tax cut buoyed a reassured and resurgent economy...
...Bonn hands out foreign aid. Hochtief got a leg up for the big Abu Simbel project by winning a smaller, but highly important contract to move an ancient temple at Kalabsha that was also threatened with flooding from the Aswan dam. Hochtief won that contract last year after Bonn lent the Egyptians $1,500,000-on the condition that a German firm would...
...Which later lent its name to New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, originally built by William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, Astor's great-grandsons...
Jackie Kennedy moved out of the White House on a sunny but crisply cool afternoon late last week. Until her departure, last-minute deliveries kept arriving at the red brick Georgetown house lent to her by Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman...
...Francisco's troubled musical past had always baffled its narcissistic resi dents. The symphony attracted excel lent musicians, if only for the sake of its pleasant location, but it traditionally suffered conductor trouble. Under its last conductor, Enrique Jorda, it had woeful bad luck playing the very center of the classic repertoire, and Jorda's faltering hand stirred a cauldron of bickers and feuds that hurt the or chestra further...