Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Island Rail Road, Davidson listened patiently to quite a few gripes and some tall tales fresh from trackside, then told his colleagues that he was not overly optimistic. Little in the research filed by TIME reporters across the country indicated that complaining commuters were in for much immediate relief. In fact, Washington Correspondent Juan Cameron, who interviewed Stuart Saunders, discovered that the busy boss of the country's biggest railroad seldom rides by train himself. He prefers autos or planes, and Cameron suspects he knows the reason. He took a trip in one of the Pennsy...
Sicily was still quaking last week as American relief planes lifted off for Palermo. Air Force and Navy transports carried tents, blankets, food, military trucks and antibiotics, a full 72,000 lbs. of emergency supplies for the victims of the island's worst disaster since 1908 (see THE WORLD). Within hours of the first flights, U.S. television screens recorded glimpses of their handiwork: snug tent villages erected amidst the rubble, field kitchens turning out hot meals, doctors and medics ministering to the shocked and the injured. No one watched with greater concern than Stephen R. Tripp, 56, a dapper...
...fascination and dramatic attraction, transplantation cannot in the conceivable future offer relief for more than a minute proportion of heart-disease victims. It therefore invites attention to less drastic surgical and medical procedures now being developed or enormously improved, which give hope to far greater numbers (see final MEDICINE story...
...Relief. And the conductors? There are not enough good ones to go around. Now that most of them jet off to play musical podiums with the world's far-flung orchestras, they scarcely have time to guide the artistic policy of their own ensembles, plan the programs, select the soloists, learn new works, rehearse and perform-let alone address fund-raising luncheons of the ladies' clubs. The best of today's established conductors are thus tired, aging, or both. The Boston Symphony's Erich Leinsdorf, 55, who has announced that he plans to resign...
Italy and Spain argued for relief from restraints on tourism, which Katzenbach said might take the form of a head tax, increased passport fees or a tax based on the number of days spent abroad. While France demanded that the U.S. hold formal talks with its trading partners before imposing restrictive measures. Finance Minister Michel Debré hinted at reprisals if U.S. companies are forced to repatriate their profits rather than reinvest them in France...