Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individuals but to the tribe, and the tribal councils, with approval of the U.S. Government, have taken a firm grip on the purse strings. Last week, as the 74-member Navajo council pored over the $12 million fiscal-1958 budget at the tribe's octagonal headquarters in Window Rock, Ariz., a Federal Indian Affairs Bureau official remarked: "They're looking over each dollar as if it were a newborn lamb...
...authored a biography of Pope Pius XII, and finds time for relaxation with his attractive wife and five children. But like many an Irish boy brought up around the "Horseshoe" District of the late Frank Hague's sprawling, dirty Jersey City, Murray is a hard-rock politician at heart. Last week Jim Murray broke Hague Successor John V. Kenny's eight-year grip on Jersey City...
...short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...
...Beyond Rock-Bottom. First came Congress. Into the White House Cabinet Room early one morning trooped 27 legislative leaders, including the ranking members of the House's and Senate's prime committees-Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Armed Services. Object of the meeting with Ike: to hear of a foreign aid program about to begin its inauspicious way through the congressional mill...
...neither rank nor frankness could move the leaders to show much enthusiasm for the foreign aid program. They were unimpressed when Ike reported that his foreign aid proposal could be slashed $500 million through economies in military purchasing. They were not much more impressed when he listed as his rock-bottom figures $2.8 billion for mutual defense, another $1.08 billion for economic aid. Word leaked out that Georgia's powerful Richard Russell had congratulated the President on the foreign aid trimming and broadly implied that this might prove that the budget was still vulnerable in other areas...