Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinated man since the beginning of time. Says Biologist Paul DeHart Kurd of Stanford University: "The mere skeleton of science is presented, and the facts are divorced from anything that might be called the processes of science, sterilized of their beauty and left dangling without a place in the scheme of things...
...pointed firmness that has led one colleague to dub him "the man with the most leg drive in the Foreign Service," MacArthur also pressed Kishi's government for details of the security measures planned for Ike's arrival. When he learned that Kishi's chief security scheme was to organize pro-government demonstrations to counter the leftists, MacArthur cabled Washington that he could no longer hold to his recommendation that Ike come...
...insisting that the 12-to-18-month first stage of disarmament must include the abolition of all foreign bases as well as of nuclear means of delivery, Nikita's scheme would give Russia, with its huge conventional forces, crushing military superiority over the U.S. By subjecting the proposed international police force to the U.N. Security Council, the Soviets would also subject its operations to their veto. And after studying the inspection proposals, one U.S. disarmament expert commented: "The Russians would let you watch them destroy what they would say was 50% of their air force, but you would have...
...Kasavubu, who has been cooperating with Belgians recently. He controls only 12 of the Lower House's 137 seats (v. 36 for Lumumba), but with Belgian help might attract enough support from among the 18 other elected parties to form a coalition government. In pursuit of this scheme, Kasavubu last week flew to Brussels to dicker with Belgium's Minister of the Congo and to call on young King Baudouin, who is scheduled to open the Congo's first Parliament at the end of the month, provided the country does not explode into bloody civil war beforehand...
Reason for the unprofessional shenanigans was an outburst of Gallic wrath against a government decree, effective last week, fixing the fees doctors may charge under the health-insurance scheme. In France, benefits are financed by special taxes on employers and workers, but the government administers the plan. Patients go to a doctor of their own choosing, pay his bill, get him to sign a form that they hand in at a government office to receive 80% reimbursement. But the fees a doctor is allowed to charge, complained France's organized doctors, were set outrageously low: in Paris...