Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luci & Lynda Bird. For all the troubles swirling about him, Johnson was still quick to bristle at charges that his Great Society is being sacrificed to foreign crisis. "It's just a bunch of blarney," he declared. "When I hear this argument that we can't protect freedom in Europe, Asia, or our own hemisphere and still meet our domestic problems, I think this is a phony argument. It's just like saying I can't take care of Luci because I have Lynda Bird...
Call for Peace Talks. At week's end, none of the group was laughing. After a quick drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted...
...changing many of the old rules with new attitudes. Instead of aiming to preserve capital or achieve steady dividends, they are confidently committed to a cult of growth. In their search for short-term gain, many are taking longer risks for larger profits, trading in and out for the quick turn...
...Three Quick Races. At Grenoble, Killy will need all his skills. The U.S.'s Billy Kidd, fully recovered from a broken leg that kept him out of action last year, is once again skiing with the methodical precision that won him a silver medal in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964. Austria's Gerhard Nenning, 27, is going into the Olympics with two straight major downhill victories behind him; Switzerland's Du-meng Giovanoli, 24, and Edi Bruggmann, 24, have both defeated Jean-Claude twice in pre-Olympic slaloms. Yet those were merely warmups...
...recommendation that banks receive a service charge of 35 dollars for the cost of paper work involved in administering the plan, since it seems unlikely that Congress will want to appear to be covering banking interests. The rest of Johnson's proposed increase will be largely eaten up by quick growth of the number of students who need financial help and the continued rise in college costs...