Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FACING the question of what Huston was trying to do, rejecting melodrama, The African Queen can be seen as a weird-sort-of-pastoral. Allnut and Rose fall in love early in the film and spend most of it being sentimental and affectionate. Allnut shaves, his coarseness quite obliterated by romance, and Rose's up-tightness vanishes after the first clinch; the boat becomes a house in suburbia and Allnut views the tropical wilderness as a New England landscape, saying, "I'd like to come back 'ere some day." Increasingly, they address each other in blissful euphemisms: 'Dear, what...
...equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million on community-action schemes and $25 million on concentrated employment plans and vocational training, organize a $500 million revolving-loan guarantee and insurance fund, and allot $30 million a year to build roads linking isolated Indian communities to the rest of society...
...Snow-mass-at-Aspen. "Simply magnificent," gloated retired Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 51, a ski nut who has been using the Aspen ski slopes to unwind after seven crushing years in Washington. In his new job as president of the World Bank, the Tiger will be able to spend about half the year at his chalet in Snowmass, but last week's outing may prove unsurpassable. "This has been a beautiful week," said McNamara. "Resting, relaxing, stimulating and exciting. I don't know when I have had a better string of days...
CARL KAYSEN is a professor-turned-administrator. After a two-year stint advising the Government on foreign affairs, he returned to Harvard in 1963, prepared to spend the rest of his career here, teaching and doing research in political economy. But in 1966, when trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton approached him, asking him to take over J. Robert Oppen-heimer's post as director of the "intellectual hotel," he could not resist their offer...
Kaysen is eager to take full advantage of the place that made Albert Einstein exclaim, "Ah, Heaven!" when he first arrived. But times have changed since Einstein's day, and Kaysen has had to spend much of his time raising money to support the Institute's roughly 200 permanent and visiting members...