Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted "a sound social security system" but indeed hoped to see the system "strengthened." But right up to the time of the San Francisco convention, Rocky kept hammering away at Goldwater on social security, and so did Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, who termed Barry's voluntary scheme "the worst kind of fiscal irresponsibility." Since Goldwater's nomination, Democrats have picked up the issue, and President Johnson mentions social security in almost the same breath with "Peace and Prosperity." Said he to a Harrisburg, Pa., audience last month: "We do have a choice this year...
...devoted more speeches to crop yield, fertilizer and seed bulls than any 20 national leaders), Khrushchev's farm programs were disastrous. He fell for one oversimplified solution after another, kept reshuffling the administrative setup for agriculture, and dreamed of better fertilizer-all to little avail. His "virgin lands" scheme showed promise this year, thanks to a hopeful harvest, but it was too late. > "GOULASH" COMMUNISM. Most of his people cheered when he announced that Communism must first give people a decent life and then think about world revolution. They cheered when he promised that the revolution would, in fact...
...proposal likely to stir controversy is that General Education be divided into only two fields, the humanities and the sciences. The Government Department, among others, objects to this scheme, which would put some Government courses into each broad category...
Time to Begin? Saigon seemed quieter after Khiem flew off to Europe. For once, the assorted Buddhists, students, workers and officers seemed content to scheme behind the scenes rather than demonstrate in the streets. At week's end, Khanh announced that the 13 officers and seven civilians behind September's abortive "coupette" would soon go on trial, facing possible death sentences. Then, at a news conference, Khanh proclaimed the power of the South Vietnamese Air Force, which he said could deliver "one, two or three-ton bombs into North Viet Nam or even southern China...
...American utopian leftism, a kind which is very sure of itself. Though Goodman has made no specific reference to Herbert Marcuse, his thinking appears to use ideas first formulated by the Frenchman in Eros and Civilization. This approach tries to put mass production, Marx, and Freud into a coherent scheme. The result is a clear possibility for a "non-repressive society...