Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to Paris, Mrs. Rose Kennedy, whose own daughter Rosemary is mentally retarded, stopped by to visit a small Paris school for retarded children. "These children can be trained to work and should be employed," she said, and went on to note that "such a person was employed for reupholstering work at the White House during my son's Administration." Meanwhile, in New York, plans were announced to break ground this week for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation, supported in part by a $1,450,000 Kennedy family donation...
...pushed bank reserves to a four-year high. Bank deposits have increased 20% at an annual rate since the beginning of the year, while loans have dropped by $1.9 billion or 1.4%. Certificates of deposit, which hit a high of $18.6 billion during the tight-money crisis last August, rose even higher last month until they reached $19.1 billion. Last week New York's First National City Bank announced that it was cutting the interest rate on small-sized CDs from 5% to 4¾%. Other banks began limiting the CDs they would accept...
...exact amount of an increase would not be determined until next year. The last increase came in 1960, when board rose $15 to the current rate...
Retail sales in particular have suffered from the shift. They rose in February only 1% from February 1966, and from results totaled so far Easter spending this year barely equaled Easter of 1966. Color-television sales are running ahead of last year but at only about 50% of the increase originally expected. With housing starts off sharply, sales of appliances have been predictably slow. Few segments of the economy have been hit as hard as autos. Auto credit is running 55% below the boom year of 1965, and the industry now expects to sell only 3,730,000 cars during...
Candid Obit. As for the children, there were only two ways of defeating bohemia: to become a complete square, like Caspar John, who turned his back on the turpentine turmoil, joined the British Navy and rose to become First Sea Lord; or to go Dad one better, as did Nicolette's sister Caitlin, who married Dylan Thomas and enthusiastically embraced his pub-and-pad life style. Nicolette herself became an artist, because "art" was the only thing she could do, and married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good...