Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first step in establishing alternative service, according to its advocates, is to set up a board to approve projects proposed by agencies requesting national service volunteers. Peace Corps work would undoubtedly make the grade, as would work in hospitals and schools. But is a member of SNCC working in the national interest? Does a small community-organizing project which constantly irritates the local political machine have a place in the catalogue of alternative services...
Though most Brazilian newspapers attacked the constitution as another step toward dictatorship, Castello Branco had no fears about congressional passage. With his proposed draft, he issued "Institutional Act No. 4," which calls Congress into extraordinary session between Dec. 12 and Jan. 24 for "discussion, voting and promulgation" of the new constitution. If Congress votes it down, the act empowers Castello Branco simply to go ahead and decree...
...First step in the Yankee maneuver was to send Third Baseman Clete Boyer (salary: $27,000) to the Atlanta Braves, for a minor-league outfielder named Bill Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised...
...responded to the industry's cries for help by doling out a little federal mortgage money. He ordered the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to pump as much as $500 million into savings and loan associations over the next three or four months in order to help them step up their lending on homes. The week before, the President had released $250 million through the Federal National Mortgage Association for direct Government purchase of FHA and VA loans on low-priced new homes...
...process of bringing a book to market is still singularly old-fashioned and slow. Ten months, and often more, elapse before the accepted manuscript arrives, printed and bound, on the bookstore shelf. Delays menace every step of the route; there is no quick way, for instance, to edit a lengthy manuscript and to check and recheck the galley proofs for printer's errors. A book must wait its turn at hard-pressed printing plants, like Kingsport Press in Tennessee, one of the largest in the U.S. The sheer bulk of books retards their progress; jobbers have only so much...