Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taylor's leave-taking was no surprise. He reminded President Johnson in his letter asking for retirement that he had accepted the Saigon assignment with the understanding that he would stay only for a year. "That year is now past," he wrote, "and I feel obliged to request relief." In a "Dear Max" reply, President Johnson said: "There is no prouder page in your record than the one which you have written in the last year." Later, at a news conference, the President denounced speculation about policy differences between himself and Taylor as "irresponsible and inaccurate and untrue...
...State Dean Rusk, who is said to be wearying of his job and to be out of favor with President Johnson. Leading the rumor list of possible successors: White House Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy; Defense Secretary McNamara, who once made the observation that no man ought to stay more than five years on the same job and who, by that standard, has about served his time in the Pentagon; and former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a Republican who has had a lot of State Department experience...
...MEDICARE. Some 19 million Americans aged 65 or over would be eligible for 60 days of free hospital care (after an initial $40 payment), stay thereafter at $10 a day. They would also be covered for 175 visits to clinics or house calls by nurses, therapists or interns. Cost: $2.6 billion a year, financed by a separate payroll tax starting at .325 of 1% of wages and rising to .85 of 1% by 1987. In addition, a voluntary, Government-subsidized program costing subscribers $3 a month would cover 80% of doctors' bills (after the first $50) for the elderly...
...York (then called Nieuw Amsterdam) to the British partly because of a shortage of potable water. In 1881 a drought forced New York firemen to learn how to extinguish blazes with dynamite instead of water. In 1949 the city declared a Dry Friday, when residents were asked to stay out of their bathtubs and showers and go unshaven to ease a water shortage. Last week, in the midst of the worst drought they have faced in this century, New Yorkers could get a glass of water in a restaurant only if they specifically asked for it. Residents were forbidden...
...longer need identify themselves when executing search warrants in certain kinds of cases, such as those involving narcotics, thus reducing the risk that suspects will destroy the evidence. Local authorities have also sought to reform the out-of-date bail system, under which bondsmen grow fat while poor defendants stay in jail, where they cannot build their cases. As a result, 59% of such defendants get convicted, compared with 10% in cases where the accused can afford bail. One hopeful solution to the problem is the four-year-old Manhattan Bail Project, through which indigents are released on their...