Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not share it. On the day that his letter was delivered, Captain Rod was going to the relief of a government outpost that was under attack and overrun, when he was killed. Back in New Orleans, he leaves a wife and his own five children, ranging in age from 18 months to eight years. In Due Pho, he also leaves a legacy of love. Six and a half tons of soap and clothes go from New Orleans this week to Rod's wards. The Clarion Herald plans to continue the fund drive for his orphanage. Said the paper...
...bills: 1) a measure extending $4,000,000 in homestead tax exemptions to disabled Michigan war veterans and their widows; 2) a $1,200,000 appropriation for eight money-starved state colleges; and 3) a $6,000,000 rent-subsidy program for the elderly. Romney insisted that tax relief for veterans should be based on individual need and disability, objected to the school appropriation on the grounds that it should await completion of an exhaustive study of Michigan's overloaded college system, and reasoned that rent assistance would be impossible to administer...
...Place to Go. Return to earth after their demanding ordeal in space was obviously a relief for the travel-jaded astronauts. But for them, as for Schirra and Stafford, the biggest moment had already passed. That was the historic instant when the two space capsules eased into sight of each other. For Gemini 7, it marked the end of a long loneliness; for Gemini 6, it meant the end of a long period of misfortune. Until then, its mission had seemed dogged by failure...
...Boom, found itself strapped by ambitious commitments, soaring wages and increased building costs when Il Sboom-the recession-hit Italy. Unable to obtain a needed $72 million loan in a shrinking capital market, Faina skipped a dividend for only the second time in 18 years, looked around for other relief. He found it in a partnership under which the Royal Dutch/Shell Group put up half the cost of Montecatini petrochemical plants abuilding at Ferrara and Brindisi...
B.S.C., playing squad ball, found relief in a 20-girl bench. Only seven Cliffies suited up, and the team's lone sub "didn't really care to go into the game," Dolores Shipposh, the team's coach, said last night. The anonymous sub had never played basketball before...