Word: serv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ugliest scene that Johnson has ever encountered. The Secret Serv ice decided to take no chances, ordered the cavalcade to gun through the streets at 30 m.p.h., leaving thousands of friendly Australians with no more than a disappointingly brief, blurred glimpse of the Johnsons as they whizzed...
Died. Charles M. Goethe, 91, California banker-turned-conservationist who made a fortune in real estate before he was 30, and spent the rest of his life using it to help protect the nation's natural beauty, making heavy donations to the infant National Park Serv ice from 1919 to 1923 to help preserve Yosemite's rugged splendor, later became a leader in the fight to save California's diminishing redwoods; of bronchial pneumonia; in Sacramento, Calif...
...good man," and "above all a devoted and honest and compassionate man." And, speaking of national monuments, Johnson announced one of his own. The University of Texas will build a library in Austin to house his papers, in addition will establish a Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute of Public Serv ice. The library will sprawl over at least 150,000 sq. ft., and thus will be by far the biggest presidential library of them...
...government." The committee uncovered many of Baker's financial shenanigans outside the Congress. Yet it ignored the problem of the misuse of his influence within the Congress. The charges of Ralph Hill whose suit initiated the Baker affair were clarified. It was learned how Baker's vending machine company Serv-U had grown in two years into a $3.5-million business with contracts with several aero-space firms. The committee also looked into Baker's financial dealings with Fred Black, a lobbyist for North American Aviation, a corporation to which Baker had leased his vending machines. These were...
...other program in Argentina is currently aiding the Di Tella Institute, which is "the Ford Foundation of Latin America," according to Vernon. The Service has one resident advisor there, who helps the Di Tella plan its research projects in economic development. Visiting advisers are also invited by the Serv-for two or three month periods...