Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Open Arm-Twisting. He flew down to Atlanta for the funeral of Martin Luther King. When the New York state assembly rejected his cherished $6 billion slum-clearance plan, Rockefeller put on a remarkable display of arm-twisting, forcing 34 legislators to reverse their votes and give him a resounding political victory. In an amazing confession for a politician, Rocky later admitted he had passed out warnings to balky assemblymen that he would withhold such "personal favors" as jobs for their friends and his approval of their pet bills if they refused to cooperate. Said he: "Those guys have never...
Pindling has also more than doubled government spending on education ($10.6 million this year) and has commissioned a long-range economic plan by Puerto Rican Consultant Teodoro Moscoso, the guiding hand behind Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" and a key organizer of the Alliance for Progress. Another Pindling achievement was ordering salaries for legislative and Cabinet members, thus eliminating the old system of fat "consultant's fees"-really payoffs and bribes-that flourished among the United Bahamian Party's government officials (TIME, Sept...
...sinful temptress. Catholic theologians have argued that the church's devotion to the Virgin Mary enhances the stature of women. Miss Daly answers that Christ's mother in fact is "glorified only in accepting the subordinate role assigned to her" in God's plan of salvation...
...from the Debris. While they look toward that kind of help, insurance companies plan to continue another phase of their operations in the ghettos. Since last September, when they pledged to divert $1 billion of their annual $16 billion flow of investments toward slum areas, over $350 million has been committed for a total of 26,588 housing units and 7,551 permanent jobs. Among the projects: a $4,500,000 low-income cooperative rising on nine acres of cleared land in debris-strewn Newark, $8,500,000 to construct 530 single-family houses in Chicago, and $15 million...
...Master, members of the Senior Common Room, and students had not protested so intenselv, the Administration would probably have followed the plan Dean Trottenberg originally outlined, which might have sent Dunster students to Eliot House for their meals. Trottenberg has since said he didn't know what was going to happen on this issue and that plans would be made only after a full exploration of the problem. But this should have been the policy from the start...