Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed truce, Pakistani-Indian relations were at long last returning to normality. Normality, of course, did not mean friendship. Not when the emotional question of Kashmir was involved. But at least the two nations, under terms of the Tashkent agreement, were talking together again-to the vast relief of both Washington and Moscow. Besides the troop pullback and civilian exchange, commercial flights between India and Pakistan have been resumed, diplomatic relations fully reestablished, some mail and telegraph services put back in operation. Last week India's turbaned Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh flew into Rawalpindi at the head...
...lost to the government through this amendment would have gone into paying for tuition, textbooks and supplies. But too much of the money would have been wasted on families in middle income groups who do not really need it. Senator Ribicoff has argued that the middle income groups deserve relief because they are ineligible for the scholarships and other financial aid which the poorer groups receive. But only a small percentage of these lower income groups are able to secure such funds. And while the middle income family may be forced to sacrifice a Florida vacation, the student from...
Monstrosity Unassembled. Weaver's professional career has been a shining example to U.S. Negroes. After leaving New Deal Washington in 1944, he worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, taught at several colleges, ran a fellowship program for the lohn Hay Whitney Foundation, was picked in 1955 by New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman to be State Rent Commissioner-the first Negro to hold a cabinet post in state history. In December 1960, lohn Kennedy, whom he had advised on civil rights during the presidential campaign, named Weaver director of HHFA-at that time the highest...
...turn, have publicly accused the People's Party of black schemes to permit the return of Otto Habsburg, pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and restore to him part of the family's nationalized fortunes. The Socialists have vehemently blocked Otto's reentry, to the vast relief of a great many Austrians who recall the empire with a vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned for recognition...
...total appropriation, $275 million would be used for economic support of South Vietnam and for community development, refugee relief and restoration of war-damaged villages...