Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major New York critics, your man's bitter but beautiful blast was refreshing. However, it reminds me of a story about George Bernard Shaw. After a curtain speech at the opening of one of his plays, Mr. Shaw was greeted with great applause by all of the audience save one man who expressed his opinion with a resounding "Boo!" G.B. looked up into the balcony where the dissenter sat. Then said he genially, "I heartily agree with you, my dear fellow; but who are we two against so many...
This would save a lot of time and trouble, and we could apprehend the hijackers every time-as their plane landed at Havana, Fla., U.S.A...
...managed by Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York. When the Rosenbergs were tried in 1951 on charges of passing U.S. atomic secrets to Russia, Sobell was a codefendant. Found guilty, the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 after the failure of a worldwide crusade, mostly Communist-inspired, to save them. Sobell was not implicated in atomic thefts but was convicted of conspiring to commit espionage. He would not take the stand to defend himself...
...talent. Today's Apollo program is yet an other demonstration of how seemingly insoluble problems can yield to a systematic approach. The question naturally arises: why can the same skills not be used on the same scale to end poverty and traffic congestion, to clean up pollution and save the cities...
...look at the Social Security trust funds; they pile up huge surpluses that are normally used to increase security benefits. So long as there is inflation, benefits have to be increased, but perhaps not to the full amount of the surplus. Reform of the Post Office would save at least $1.5 billion, as well as move letters faster, while another $100 million could be found by asking whether it still makes sense for the Rural Electrification Administration to subsidize rural cooperatives with 2% loans. Congress should also be shamed into cutting the $4.6 billion a year that goes for pork...