Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listen! In TIME Letters [Dec. 22] are the following people: a farmer who resents not being allowed to go on relief like his city cousins; a blast at sonic booms; a "misunderstood" college student who smokes pot, drinks, and makes out on dates because her parents committed the unforgivable sin of loving, "not listening"; and another college student lamenting the state of the world...
...every attempted reform has failed. In 1962, a commission appointed by President Kennedy recommended a series of modest reforms for presidential campaigns-tax relief for small donors, repeal of limitations on individual donations and interstate committee expenditures, tighter reporting and a registry of election finance to help enforce the rules. Congress ignored the whole thing. So did Lyndon Johnson, until 1966, when Louisiana Senator Russell Long somehow bulled through a new law allowing federal tax payers to check a box on their returns authorizing a $1 gift for presidential candidates-the proceeds (a possible $60 million the first year...
When Costa e Silva took office last March and promised some relief from Castello Branco's brand of austerity, Brazil's upper classes began pressuring him to relieve them of Travancas. Costa held off, waiting for the right moment. It finally came when, during a television interview in Sao Paulo, Travancas described a big new crackdown on 3,000 delinquent companies. "If we were to look into all business returns in Sao Paulo," Travancas told his interviewer, "there would not be enough jail space to hold the tax evaders." Asked if a concentration camp were not the answer...
...classics" or not, most any show that replaces the dreary situation comedies is a welcome relief. Most notably, ABC's replay of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, powered by the virtuoso performance of Geraldine Page, is one of the finest dramas ever to appear on TV, in season...
...welcome relief after Ford's strike and scattered walkouts at both G.M. and Chrysler, the new contract assures the auto industry of labor peace until 1970-though it could be a shaky peace at first. Reason: local issues are still unresolved by all but 15 of G.M.'s 134 bargaining units. Probably the most restless of all U.A.W. members, G.M. workers are thus in a position to stage local walkouts that could disrupt production or even close down the company altogether. Reuther considers that unlikely. The new national contract, the U.A.W. boss predicted last week, "should hasten...