Word: reagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California's Reagan, a neophyte in government, almost certainly faced the necessity of a tax hike, but proposed a tough-minded reappraisal of exactly what state funds were being doled out for. "The time has come," he said, "to run a check to see if all the services government provides were in answer to demands or were just goodies dreamed up for our supposed betterment." He promised that his administration would "squeeze and cut and trim" government costs, partially through a reorganization of agencies, until "we will build those things we need to make our state a better place...
...earns $76 a week with Operation Head Start in Philadelphia, picks up $10,800 a year as a metallurgical engineer at Ford, and farms 600 acres of Dakota wheat land. He has a lightning-fast left jab, a rifling right arm, and reads medieval metaphysicians. He campaigned for Reagan, booed George Wallace, and fought for racial integration. He can dance all night, and if he hasn't smoked pot himself, knows someone who has. He tucks a copy of Playboy into his concerto score as he records with the Boston Philharmonic...
Scandal breaks as police discover Ronald Reagan loitering in the men's room of an Oakland, YMCA. Young Patrick Nugent dies of St. Vitus's Dance. Dunster House ushers in the new theatre season with its universally acclaimed production of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice...
...Whether or not one supports Ronald Reagan, one cannot help being impressed by his lucid guideline to the Berkeley situation: "No one is compelled to attend the university. Those who do attend should accept and obey the prescribed rules...
...want to talk of potential presidential candidates, saying, "I don't disqualify anyone for the presidency." But when somebody told him that New York's Nelson Rockefeller had ruled himself "unequivocally" out of the race, Reagan allowed: "Well, that's not a common word in my vocabulary -but I think...