Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they leave us alone?" cries Shuman. "Why don't they get out and let the farmers run their own business?" By "they" he means Congress, the army of Government farm experts commanded by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, and what Shuman calls the "crazy-quilt patchwork of stopgap farm programs"-all hopelessly complex, all composted of political expediency, and all, in Shuman's view, a complete failure...
Even so, the national origins policy remained an unworkable patchwork of discrimination and special dispensations. Great Britain, with an annual quota of about 65,000 a year, sends no more than 25,000 immigrants to the U.S. Ireland, with a quota of 17,750, sends just 6,500. Italy, allowed to send only 5,666, has a waiting list of 249,583. India's quota is just 100, its backlog...
From such patchwork beginnings, the ADC has evolved into a 100,000-man force with $8 billion worth of equipment, a $1 billion-a-year budget and 1,500,000 miles of communications circuits. The largest component of the multiservice North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs, ADC is commanded by Lieut. General Herbert B. Thatcher, who flew one of the F-51s at Mitchell 15 years ago. Its major missions...
Quicksand. In tactical terms, patchwork is about the only plausible pursuit for the U.S. in the Dominican Republic. So corrosive is the hatred between the opposing Dominican forces that there is no middle ground. Yet the military middle ground is what 20,500 U.S. paratroopers and marines now hold, getting shot at from both sides, and the political middle ground is what the U.S. seeks, while suffering polemic potshots from around the world...
...patchwork did not stop the main body of the historic bill from moving ahead. The House Judiciary Committee completed hearings on it last week; the Senate Judiciary Committee is under instructions to report the bill out by this week; both chambers hope to have the proposed law ready for floor action before Easter...