Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Raymond Milliard, 58, welfare administrator who held the old-fashioned belief that the able-bodied should work for their relief checks, finding them employment as gas-station attendants, bus boys and such, an idea he practiced first as head of New York City's relief program from 1948 to 1951, and for the past .twelve years as public-aid chief in Chicago, where he also pioneered a much-admired adult learning program to make illiterates employable, a project that helped take 39,000 people off relief rolls in three years; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Julius Caesar is a no-nonsense play. It gets right down to business and sticks to business. There is no sub-plot, no comic relief, not even any mildly humorous lines except for a handful of Casca's; and the play is freer of bawdry than any other save Richard II. Aside from a little compression of chronology, Shakespeare followed closely his three source biographies in Plutarch's Lives, often just turning its line of prose into verse...
...Ranger mission was the first to touch down, and relief showed on Johnson's face as he got the news: all were back safely. Then the score from Thailand clattered in. The President exulted: "It's incredible, it's really incredible that this could happen with the loss of only one plane...
...Volgograd hydroelectric station he met his match. The station officials had prepared a 300-lb. sturgeon stuffed with caviar. De Gaulle eyed it skeptically and said: "There always has to be a victim." Only once did he lose patience with his hosts. In Kiev, being shown a bas-relief of "all the peoples of the world," De Gaulle snapped: "Good. Since everyone is there, we can go away...
...Parliament, Labor M.P. Hugh Jenkins demanded action from Postmaster General Anthony Wedgwood Benn, warning that "piracy is an aspect of anarchy, and when the government condones that, as it has in effect been condoning it for the last few years, gangsters soon take over." Wedgwood Benn agreed with relief. He announced that legislation was finally being drafted to outlaw the pirates, probably by making it legal to prosecute advertisers who use them, or newspapers and magazines that print their schedules. Notably absent from his statement was any indication that the socialist government planned the simplest tactic of all: licensing legitimate...