Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dozen-or a Hundred. Johnson's most ambitious idea would create a "demonstration cities program" to be administered by the new Housing and Urban Development Department. Under this scheme, a city applying for federal aid would select a single blighted neighborhood and submit an overall plan for its rejuvenation. The project would include housing for different income groups and the public health, education, recreation, welfare and transportation services necessary to "change the total environment...
Pumping Water Up. Geologist Martini already had evidence that his scheme would work. There was no doubt that compressed air could be stored underground; it is often used for testing the sealing of caverns that many nations use to store natural gas. In addition, off-peak-hour electricity is already used to pump water up into a reservoir above the level of a water-driven turbine. During hours of peak demand, the water is released to flow down against the blades of the turbine, which drives an electric generator...
...criminals go, George Skalla was even edgier than most. He and a friend, Cal Bailey, 44, had come up with what seemed a surefire scheme. For between $2,000,000 and $8,000,000 in ransom, they planned to kidnap Leonard Firestone, 58, one of five sons of the late rubber magnate Harvey Firestone, from his $250,000 home in Beverly Hills. The plot was dangerous enough, but Skalla's real worry was Bailey, an ex-con who had turned respectable and had acquired a $75,000 house and four children. Bailey took over the show, threatened to kill...
...days when both were young Senate pages. The indictment charged that Bromley had been Bobby's tax screen, receiving as "legal fees" $37,000 from Baker clients in 1963-64. Most of this, the grand jury found, ended up as cash in Baker's pockets. The scheme became so routine, however, that Baker began ignoring his pal altogether and having "a person other than Wayne L. Bromley" endorse the checks. Bromley was one of the grand jury's key witnesses and, though he was named as a "conspirator" with Baker in the tax-evasion scheme...
...seminar's 40 boys and a whole corridor in a Radcliffe dorm for the 20 girls. When this was not possible, he settled for a small frame house near the Square to use as the group's home away from home. In retrospect, Riesman is relieved that the first scheme failed. "Enough group solidarity developed as it was," he says. "I just went to another seminar wedding...