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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brasselle's protagonist is Jonathan Bingham, the sadistic and ruthless president of BCA ("Broadcast Corporation of America"). Bingham is "the smartest sonovabitch this business has ever seen," and would "slash his own mother's 'wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham...
...dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...
Though sisal-producing countries have managed to keep total output fairly constant in recent years, about 660,000 tons annually, they have had to slash their prices to maintain their markets. From $700 a ton in the early 1950s, sisal has sunk to its present $168 level, which makes it hardly worth harvesting at all. And there is no hope of reversing the trend. The time-honored tactic of withholding the product from the market to drive up its price would only backfire, sending an even larger share of potential sales to synthetic fibers...
...house. He defeated handily, by 259 to 137 votes, an attempt to make him abide by the cut of only $4 billion that would be acceptable to the White House. Next day, in slow, stressed cadences, the President capitulated on Mills's terms even though the cut will slash into the bone and sinew of Great Society programs he deems essential to assuage America's social ills. Without increased taxes, Johnson warned, "the gates of economic chaos could open...
There matters stood until last week, when the President met with House leaders and, with great reluctance, worked out an agreement for a slash of $4 billion in cash from the 1969 budget and a hefty cut of $18 billion in already promised, but not yet due allotments for future budgets. Both cutbacks were then ratified by the key House Appropriations Committee...