Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party might wisely reserve appeals to conscience for matters like racial poverty and apartheid. Military spending defeats itself almost from fiscal definition of the problem. It creates enormous budget deficits; it swells consumer demand without adding to the supply of consumer goods; and it preempts funds from urgently needed relief programs...
...coed prep school in California. The series' intention, says Griffith, is "to tell it like it is for the young people while remaining palatable to older audiences." The premiere involved a student who refused to pop "uppers" and "downers" like the rest of the kids. The comic relief, provided mostly by the school's bicep-brained athletic director (Jerry Van Dyke), was a downer. As usual, Griffith came off as platitudinous but rather engaging...
...mysterious figure in cold war politics; in Budapest. Urbane and multilingual, the London-born, Harvard-educated descendant of an American Quaker family left State in 1936 to work for the League of Nations, and later became wartime European head of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized by assorted Iron Curtain regimes as a wartime spy for the U.S. Office...
...depress Belcher are not as bad as they once were. Under union pressure, companies have made some improvements. Shifts are a bit shorter now than the 3:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. stint that Walter Reuther worked at Ford in 1927. Over the years, the union has won regular relief breaks, the system of roving relief men, and doors on toilets. Some workers who do especially dirty jobs such as painting, now get company-paid special clothing. Many plants now have enclaves away from the line where men on their breaks can sit down, smoke...
Buoying Stocks. First Pennsylvania's prime cut sent cheer through the business community. The prospect of further relief from the high interest rates that have hurt borrowers for two years was a major reason why the stock market snapped back last week from an early sell-off started by the G.M. strike. California's Bank of America, the largest in the nation, is seriously considering following Bunting in lowering the prime rate to 7½%, perhaps this week. Some Manhattan bankers would not be surprised to see the cut soon become widespread. Bunting predicts that the industry...