Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...views on Viet Nam will obviously shift in the wake of Johnson's speech. But even before he made it, Richard Nixon had already begun to moderate his position. The prevalent impression had been that Nixon was more bellicose than Johnson and that he had a concrete plan for ending the war. Both ideas stemmed from Nixon's own past statements, but neither was strictly accurate...
...Gimmicks. In his most recent statements, however, Nixon has dropped his call for more drastic action against North Viet Nam, notably the mining of Haiphong harbor. Last month in New Hampshire, he gave rise to the secret-plan notion by giving his "pledge" that a new Administration would "end the war and win the peace in the Pacific." He conceded that he had no "pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks." He was merely making the quite obvious point that any new President would be under particular pressure to stop hostilities...
...acres instead of 150, the school has guaranteed that it will take over operation of the Newark City Hospital-known locally, with only some hyperbole, as "the Slaughterhouse"-and invest $2,500,000 in repairs. In addition, a Newark community health council will supervise a comprehensive health-improvement plan for the ghetto and the training and hiring of more Negroes...
...more taxes. Instead, the Administration devised packages of restrictions limiting the uses to which American citizens could put their dollars abroad. First came a tightening of President Kennedy's "voluntary" restraints against bank lending and corporate investment; finally, last January, came outright controls on capital and a controversial plan to tax tourist travel...
...loot of the title is stolen money. Two homosexual pals, not immune to heterosexual byplay, have robbed a bank adjacent to a funeral parlor. One of the young men (James Hunter) works at the funeral parlor, and the mother of the other (Kenneth Cranham) has just died. The duo plan to skedaddle with the loot while the funeral is going on. At the same time, the dead mother's cynically efficient nurse (Carole Shelley), a sevenfold murderess of previous husbands, is precipitously wooing the bereaved widower. Into this den of agitated vipers steps Truscott (George Rose) of Scotland Yard...