Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...austere CIA headquarters, a bas-relief plaque with Allen Dulles' likeness bears the inscription: "His Monument Is Around Us." It has been 40 years since Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the only U.S. code-breaking operation then in existence with the scornful remark, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Allen Dulles was a gentleman, but he also had a bent for reading other people's mail that was ingenious and invaluable...
Miniskirts on the Gran Via? Bikinis on the beaches? Student protests in the universities? An increasingly outspoken press? To many Spaniards, these outward and visible evidences of an inward and spiritual change in the nation's life came as welcome relief from the all-pervasive greyness that had characterized the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco ever since he was named Chief of State in 1939. The five-year experiment with liberalization, however, had horrified the archconservative military, and they made little secret of their concern. Two weeks ago, alarmed by student violence in Madrid and Barcelona, Franco declared...
...misson are: Charles Dunn, Goodell's chief administrative assistant; George Axinn, assistant dean of Agriculture at Michigan State and a specialist in tropical agriculture; Dr. Roy Brown, associate professor of Pediatrics at Tufts who has spent more than three years in Africa; and George Orrick, logistics and relief specialist...
...Alone. Frei's government has been trying its best to alleviate the suffering, but only at great cost to the economy. Deficit spending for drought relief has intensified Chile's inflation: the rate was 30% last year. Special government relief now goes to 60,000 people; in addition, some 60,000 are out of work, and that number may well double by next month. Foreign-exchange reserves are being whittled down by costly fuel-oil and coal imports that are necessary to make up for the loss of hydroelectric power...
Peru lost an estimated $40 million, chiefly in cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does...