Word: ployes
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...then to the Defense Secretary, who became the arbitrating go-between for the White House, Pentagon and Budget Bureau. This time the budget work started from the recommendations of civilian task forces, continued through McNamara and then to the military chiefs and services (as a sort of courtesy ploy), and finally to the White House. The New Frontiersmen claim proudly that their approach to the budget is not so much "Vhat limit should be put on spending?" as "What do we have to spend to do what we have to do?" Nonetheless, the massive Pentagon requests are clipped just about...
...China ploy came only five days after U.S. Ambassador John Moors Cabot had relayed President Kennedy's offer of stopgap credits-reportedly $100 million-to help tide Brazil over its economic crisis. The offer was made just as that crisis was forcing Jânio to order all ministries to cut their budgets 30% within the next two weeks and to clamp down on goldbricking civil servants, many of whom, thanks to political influence, have been allowed to come to the office only once a month to pick up their paychecks. Despite his nation's urgent need...
Islands Offered. Last week the Russians were using the hapless fishermen in a traditional Communist ploy: in exchange for concessions from the Japanese, they were offering to stop doing what they should not have been doing in the first place. In Tokyo, Aleksandr Ishkov, Soviet minister of fisheries, named the Russians' price for halting its harassment -that Japan scrap its security treaty with the U.S. This was a follow-up to a gambit offered by Nikita Khrushchev, who last month told a group of Japanese visiting in Moscow that he would be willing to hand back Habomai and Shikotan...
...ploy similar to that used on Chicago's aging (74) Negro Representative William Dawson, briefly boomed for Postmaster General. To soothe the feelings of a valuable political ally, Kennedy made the offer, but Dawson knew that a refusal would be quite in order...
...surest way to make an impression on fellow concertgoers is to bring a score and silently read along during the performance. In a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall last week, Canadian Violinist Hyman Bress threatened to render this excellent ploy obsolete. Behind him, as he played Schoenberg's Fantasy Opus 47, the twelve pages of the score were projected on a screen...