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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not pay to jest with a Russian -at least not with Defense Minister Andrei A. Grechko. One of the highlights laid on for Hubert H. Humphrey's current 13-day tour of the Soviet Union was a wild-boar hunt, for which the old game-bird hunter quite freely admitted that he was unprepared by either instinct or experience. As Humphrey told it, he jokingly brought up the subject with Grechko in Moscow six years ago. "I was just pulling his leg," says H.H.H., but Grechko took him at his word. So off he went to the Defense...
Like Apple Pie. "We have some of the lowest sewer tax rates in the country," says Stefanski. "I figured we'd double the rates to amortize our bonds." To persuade the people to pay, Stefanski enlisted newspaper support, lined up citizen groups and got 33 suburban governments to endorse the plan. "It became like apple pie and motherhood," he recalls. "No one could be against clean water." Last fall Clevelanders approved the bond issue by a vote of 2 to 1, giving it more "yes" votes than any other proposal on the ballot. In five years, Cleveland should have...
...airlines have some huge bills coming due. They are beginning to pay for the $10.3 billion in new equipment that they have ordered, including the 374-passenger Boeing 747 jets that will go into service before year's end. In the tight money market, they have to pay about 9% interest on borrowed money. To avoid sinking deeper and deeper into debt, they must get a return of at least 10.5% on their capital investment. Last year their return was only...
Founded in October, 1966, the CLAO office is funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and by the Harvard Law School. The bulk of CLAO's financing comes from the OEO, while the law school pays primarily for handling criminal cases, which Congress had forbidden OEO to pay...
...Boston followers of the swami support themselves by taking alms and selling their magazine "Back to Godhead," which prints articles on the swami's teachings. Several members of the group hold outside jobs--one is a social worker--and contribute their pay to the temple...