Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than $300 million, and at least another $200 million in contracts is planned for coming months. The projects are being carried out by four private U.S. construction and engineering firms that have banded together in a giant venture called RMK-BRJ. The four: Raymond International of Manhattan, Morrison-Knud-sen of Boise, Idaho (sponsor of the combine), Brown & Root of Houston and J. A. Jones of Charlotte, N.C. RMK-BRJ employs 1,433 American civilians and 22,710 Vietnamese on 40 major projects and 100 lesser ones...
...announcer at the launching pad introduced Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nev.), Reps. George Miller (D-Cal.) and Don Brown (D-Cal), and Presidential assistant Jack Valenti, who had escorted a party of foreign diplomats, Shirley Maclaine was there incognito. Miss Florida Citrus strolled in front of the stands...
...bill filed yesterday in the legislature calls for the establishment of a committee to review the study. The legislation, filed jointly by Price, Sen. Beryl D. Cohen (D-Brookline), and Rep. John W. Frenning (D-Boston) is actually a parliamentary device. A bill incorporating the suggestions of the report will be introduced as a substitute amendment to it next January...
...Chairman of the Finance Committee, he opposed the spending plans of five Presidents, prepared his own budget to show how expenditures could be brought back in line with revenues. Across the Potomac, his Democratic squirearchy firmly ruled the Old Dominion, where Byrd started his career in the state sen ate 50 years ago this month...
What is needed are cheap, long-term credits for the purchase of seed, fertilizers and equipment; and heavy investment in agricultural schools, roads, plus storage, market and irrigation facilities. The food-poor nations, concludes FAO Director B. R. Sen, must quadruple their output in the next 35 years "to give their vastly increased populations an adequate, though in no sense lavish diet...