Word: reines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Shoulder. Maybe it was Lucky Debonair. By the time the eleven-horse field rounded the clubhouse turn, Willie had Lucky Debonair in the lead. Hunched high over the withers, keeping a tight rein, he contentedly allowed Flag Raiser, a 17-1 shot, to stay close alongside. "He didn't worry me," said the Shoe later. "It was the horses behind that...
From Right & Left. Frei proposes a state bank to force down the high interest rates charged by Chile's private banks and thus help rein in inflation (up 38% in 1964), land reform to distribute unused or badly administered estates to 100,000 landless peasants, tax reform to raise rates on middle and high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country...
...insurrections, most unions continue to be run as tight little clubs by entrenched leaders who keep a close rein through patronage and control of the union newspaper. "They just don't seem to groom heirs or successors," says Presidential Labor Mediator David L. Cole. Often a prospective new leader is as old as the man he may replace. Among the major leaders and their likely successors...
...equate Democrats with fiscal irresponsibility, Johnson set out to change that image. He succeeded by keeping his first budget under $100 billion and by halving the deficit. At the same time, he convinced key Congressmen-notably Senator Harry Byrd and Representative Millsthat he really aimed to keep a tight rein on federal spending. The result: the two men finally moved the $11.5 billion tax cut out of their committees, and Congress quickly passed it. Though Johnson's techniques of persuasion and manipulation have inevitably changed somewhat in the transition from legislative to executive branch, they have lost none...
Though "sex is not synonymous with obscenity," he said, Fanny Hill makes it so. "Free rein," Judge Pashman added, "should not be given under the guise of constitutional guarantees to vilely depict perversions and sexual adventures as John Cleland saw fit 200 years ago. This is not the way to a better constitutional world; it is rather the path to decay and decline. The Constitution should not be the sword of the shameful profiteer of filth. It must be the shield to protect our sense of moral decency." Next testing station: the New Jersey Supreme Court, which will have...