Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Conyers, one of Detroit's two Negro Congressmen, drove up Twelfth Street with Hubert Locke and Deputy School Superintendent Arthur Johnson. "Stay cool, we're with you!" Conyers shouted to the crowd. "Uncle Tom!" they shouted back. Someone heaved a bottle and the leaders beat a prompt retreat, not wanting to become "handkerchief heads" in the bandaged sense of the epithet. "You try to talk to these people," said Conyers unhappily, "and they'll knock you into the middle of next year...
...some disagreement as to how far and how fast the economy is likely to rise amid growing labor unrest and slightly rising unemployment, and with the nation's factories running at 84.7% of capacity, the lowest figure in three years. "The recovery is not going to be as prompt and vigorous as we thought," says a senior Federal Reserve Board economist. To the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the rebound looks "very satisfying-right on track." Taking a middling view, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr said: "The economy is following our blueprint, but it is about two months...
...welfare aid. The raids ae conducted without search warrants or voluntary consent. Earlier this year, after Social Worker Benny Max Parrish refused to go on one, the California Supreme Court ruled that pre-dawn raids aimed at discovering a "man in the house" are unconstitutional. The California ruling may prompt challenges to such raids in other states. In Alabama a federal suit has been filed alleging that the substitute-father law is used primarily against Negroes, punishes children for a deserted mother's sex life and violates her right of privacy. And now, the Health, Education and Welfare Department...
They may not do the actual talking, but they advise and prompt and often write the script. They are employed by the President and his Cabinet, corporation executives and union bosses, university heads and foundation directors. They help banks seem less coldly businesslike, charity organizations seem more businesslike, churches garner more souls. By no means do only the big chiefs use p.r. men: hardly anything is done without them these days, whether one is starting a barbershop, publishing a book, launching a girl in society, arranging a wedding or organizing a funeral...
...Administration now estimates that the next year's will be $13.6 billion. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler recently admitted that it might go as high as $24 billion, mostly because of the Viet Nam war. Warned Martin in Toledo: "We must have adequate, effective-and above all -prompt tax action that would whittle down the deficit to manageable proportions. Delay would permit inflationary forces to gain momentum...