Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Pope John XXIII also aided the cause by issuing an encyclical (see RELIGION) that called cooperation between advanced and underdeveloped nations one of the world's greatest social needs. But the program's real push came, ironically, from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, whose continuing threats have stirred up an atmosphere of crisis that makes a strong foreign aid program a near certainty. Observed one aid advocate: "The Soviets every year seem to pull the same stuff that snaps everyone to attention and gets this bill passed...
Last Lurch. Last year the New Haven rolled $14.5 million into the red. In one final lurch toward solvency, Alpert persuaded the Governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to push through tax reductions totaling $6,000,000 on New Haven property. He hoped to save another $6,000,000 by economies in labor and management and by repeal of the 10% federal excise tax. But the state tax reductions did not go into effect until a fortnight ago, the federal tax was not repealed, and the labor-management savings never came about...
...brought to Washington and show the world we're tough. They'll respect us for it." Said a Florida banker: "Look, every time we really lay it on the line we've stopped the Communists. If we tell them they can't push us further and show them we mean it, we'd be all right. The President has got to be a leader. Damn it, that's what we elected him for." In that fiery spirit, and in the determination of the U.S. to throw back the challenges of Communism at whatever cost...
...keyboard to the other, violently plucks at the piano's innards to get a harp effect. Smith has developed a technique of aiming his clarinet directly at the piano strings to create weird and ghostly harmonics. A virtuoso on his instrument. Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings. The piece most startling to audiences is a concoction by Smith in which he improvises against a background tape recording of an electronically scrambled version of his own clarinet playing, complete with "key clicks...
...test the potentialities of pay TV. Zenith got FCC permission to conduct a three-year test in Hartford, Conn. The experiment has been stalled by lawsuits brought by local theater owners, but Wright hopes to be able to push on with it within nine months. If the Hartford test is successful. Zenith will be in the enviable position of holding patents for the nation's first proven system of over-the-air transmission of pay TV to private homes...