Word: rushes
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Jamaica. Upon getting independence, the 1,600,000 Jamaicans made no headlong rush to erase their British past. Coins and currency still bear Queen Elizabeth's likeness, and British-trained civil servants, both white and black, retain a firm grip on important ministries. Spry old Sir Alexander Bustamante, 79, the craggy-faced patriarch of a Premier, preaches patience, order and unswerving friendship with the West...
...Rush? In some quarters, however, the press reception was qualified. The Chicago Tribune looked skeptically on Johnson's promise to spend prudently. "Are these the visible signs of thrift and frugality?" asked the Tribune, as it ticked off Johnson's pledged recommitment to space exploration, foreign aid, aid to education, medicare and other federal programs with high price tags. In North Carolina, the Greensboro Daily News counseled Congress and the nation not to be stampeded into precipitate action. "Few Americans (and, we imagine, still fewer Congressmen) will feel that even the late President's martyrdom imposes...
This warning against hasty rubber-stamp action was also sounded by the New York Daily News-which declared itself unable to see "why Congress should rush to pass various pet Kennedy bills"-the tax cut in particular. And some cartoonists (see cuts) took a more jaundiced view of how Administration bills would fare in Congress...
...Gardner made an excellent zebra kick (a kick up the middle when the opposition expects one into touch) but an offsides penalty returned the prolate spheroid to the Crimson five-yard line. The Philadelphians took it across on a rush...
...Cambodian government's request for termination of U.S. foreign aid in no way "represents a rush to Nong Kimny, Cambodian ambassador to the United States, said in an interview last night. Instead, Kimny said, the sudden move by Prince Norodom Sihanouk reflected doubts about the role of "certain U.S. agencies" in Cambodia and its neighbor South Vietnam...