Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modified plan was largely the brainchild of AEC Chairman John McCone, who outlined his proposals last January (TIME, Feb. 2), and got support from the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. Young (34) Idaho Democrat Frank Church accepted them enthusiastically in a Senate speech last month. Tennessee's Albert Gore, in a well-publicized White House visit, urged the U.S. to confine the ban to atmospheric tests, urged that the U.S. offer to suspend them unilaterally...
...already among the 2,100,000 drawing "disability compensation" for an in-service injury (75% noncombat), any man who wore the uniform 90 days can at 65 get a full federal pension ($78.75 to $135.45 a month) simply by showing 10% disability (virtually automatic at 65), and proving that his own annual income is less than $1,400 ($2,700 if he has dependents). A wife's income does not disqualify him, nor does any amount of property...
...graduated scale" that turns the pension into a supplemental payment, brings each pensioner's annual income (including social security) from all sources to the $1,400 minimum, higher if he has dependents. A single veteran with an annual income of $1,300 would get only $10 a month in pension; a married veteran with two children and only $1,200 income would get $90 a month more...
...Busiest hecklers: the Veterans of World War I, nicknamed "Wonnies," newly formed professional veterans organization, now luring members from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars with its promise to lobby through an automatic $100-a-month pension...
...today's other race the lightweights at Annapolis will be rowing on a difficult tidal course which is often quite rough. Besides familiarity with the course, Navy possesses another advantage in its month head-start in getting on the water. The consequent differences in bladework may be a telling margin...