Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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View from the Air. First Johnson bundled seven disaster-relief experts off to storm-battered Florida aboard a White House jet. Then, as damage reports from New Orleans worsened, he decided to head for the action. Louisiana Congressmen were called and told that they had half an hour to get on over to the White House if they wanted to come along. In another 45 minutes, Air Force One took off with Johnson, Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long, Representatives Hale Boggs, Otto Passman, James Morrison, Joe Waggon-ner Jr. and Edwin Willis...
Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson, who cannot run for re-election and thus has no need to court the segregationist vote, last month urged his state to comply with the new federal Voting Rights Act. In any event, warned the Governor, "any effort through the courts to obtain relief from this act is unlikely to succeed...
...requests for injunctions. But the Justice Department is fully prepared to take the case into the federal courts. There the last legal ditch will almost certainly be so deep that even the most intransigent Southerner will have to agree that Governor Johnson was right: there is no relief in sight...
...concerns. It acknowledges that the private car is and for scores of years will be the most used form of transportation. Its expression is the U.S. Interstate Highway system, and its symbol is the red, white and blue shield that seems to say, "Heave a sigh of relief and get moving...
...Conrad took some pictures to show the folks back home. The first photos released last week made a spectacular space travelogue, exceptionally clear and well-defined. From more than 150 miles up, the astronauts were able to get detailed shots of the launch pads at Cape Kennedy, the sharp relief of mountains and deserts, and incredible sights of underwater coral reefs (see color pages). The more than 1,000 pictures that they took with four cameras* demonstrated anew the potential of space photography for scientific and military applications...