Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the summer and fall of 1960, President Eisenhower from time to time personally reviewed the scheme. In late November, the last time it came up for his comprehensive review, an operational plan had not yet crystallized. It was taken for granted that a landing in force could not possibly be brought off unless the expedition was shepherded to the beach by the U.S. Navy (either openly or in disguise) and covered by air power in whatever amount might be necessary. Eisenhower, the commander of Normandy, understood this well enough...
Gobbled Gains. The ambitious scheme faces vast obstacles. India's population, growing faster than the statisticians' slide rules had calculated, will reach 492 million by 1966, gobbling up many gains while it grows. Plan III provides $105 million for birth-control programs (including mobile sterilization units), but the $1,550,000,000 budgeted for "general health improvement" may frustrate the family planners by further lowering the death rate. At best, five years from now the annual per capita income of India's millions will be only $81, and their food intake 17.5 oz. per person...
...small errands, keeps a firm grip on the purse strings, taunts him with his poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets him adrift in a dinghy on the open sea. Rescued on the verge of sunstroke, Tom puts his vicious little mind to work on a vicious little scheme to get rid of Philip but still hang on to his meal ticket...
...scheme, first elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks...
...must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing at a mere 5% annually...