Word: p
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAPPY MASSES. "A good Congress is measured by laws that mean something to people-that is, p-e-e-p-u-l -that is, p-e-e-p-1-e-that is, people. You know what I am talking about. I am talking about folks. I am talking about average fellows."-Newark...
Some critics urge the Federal Government to do the insurance industry a favor and take over the auto-accident business entirely. Urban Specialist Daniel P. Moynihan, who chairs a federal auto-safety advisory committee, suggests a federal insurance system modeled on workmen's compensation, with awards made strictly on the basis of loss rather than fault. "Financing such a system," he argues, "might be the easiest part of all." Some $3.4 billion a year in gasoline taxes is already being spent to build the Interstate Highway System. When the system is finished in 1973, Moynihan would simply raise...
...burned that all six became totally blind. Authority for the story was Norman M. Yoder, 53, commissioner of the Office for the Blind in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare. He stood by it after his informal report to Washington got out. A state senator and Governor Raymond P. Shafer backed it up at news conferences. The six, said Yoder, were all getting state...
Time to Leap. And why did they all come, 362 strong? Because, said Obolensky, "93½% of them are my friends." And since all the bills were paid by the Mary Carter Paint Co. (which owns the new Paradise Island Hotel, along with A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who retains 25%), the guests knew that le beau Serge would program their kind of weekend in the sun. He was there from the instant they entered Nassau customs, smoothing the way and shepherding them into the black and white Cadillac limousines. For entertainment, he arranged an "informal" dinner the first night...
...General Westmoreland's phrase, there was "light at the end of the tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset...