Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Group." As the plane winged off toward Cairo, Western diplomats in the tiny African mountain kingdom breathed a sigh of relief. So did Burundi's ruler, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, 53, who four days earlier had ordered the Chinese Communists to leave. The Mwami had ample reason to be angry. No sooner had Peking established a mission in Bujumbura, in January 1964, than Chinese money began to flow into the pockets of Burundi ministers and politicians. The Reds quickly allied themselves with discontented Watutsi refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were...
...sinewy Sardinian immigrant, Nivola loves outdoor public sculpture. He has sand-cast a 100-ton bas-relief for a Hartford, Conn., insurance company, carved out abstract fountains and reliefs in raw concrete for the late Eero Saarinen's brace of new colleges at Yale...
...most bewildering of American phenomena, the inaugural parade, a fixture that comes so naturally to a spectacle-loving public that few people ever think to question its necessity or its form. Yet there it was, with all the oomph and oompah, the crashing brass, the flights of unwitting comic relief, the displays of acrobatics, the precision marching, the dimpled knees and limber legs, the earnest faces of the young people who had come from all over the nation...
Died. Maurice Pate, 70, co-founder and executive director of UNICEF, a career relief worker who with Herbert Hoover in 1946 organized the United Nations' International Children's Emergency Fund, which now operates as a health, education and welfare program in 116 nations on a $30 million annual budget, more than $2,000,000 of which it gets from "trick or treat" Halloween boxes and $2,250,000 from its Christmas and greeting cards; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Meanwhile, Welfare Commissioner James R. Dumpson sent out letters with the regular fortnightly relief checks. Since there were no investigators around to make sure that the recipients were still entitled to get the checks, Dumpson lamely reminded those on welfare that they are obligated "to return this check if you are no longer in need of assistance." Apparently every recipient felt entitled; by week's end not one had returned his check...