Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full-fledged reporter for the Salt Lake City Tribune. Two years of missionary preaching (customary among young Mormons) through Georgia, Alabama and Florida, followed by a tour as a war correspondent in China, gave him a view of the world. But it was still a shy and polite young man of 24 who walked uninvited into Pearson's office one morning in 1947 to ask for a job. He got it, Pearson no doubt sensing in Anderson the virtues he most revered in himself: industry, uprightness, zeal...
...ancient Persian art and culture; of a heart attack; in Shiraz, Iran. Pope devoted his life to studying, lecturing and writing about the Persian civilization. In London in 1931, he organized the greatest exhibit of Persian art ever held. His massive six-volume Survey of Persian Art (1938) is still the definitive work in its field. "Turn back! Turn back!" he once cried. "Look to the ancients. Old Persia can save us-those remarkable people, with their gallantry, their decorum, their selfdiscipline, their sensitivity, their humanity, their productivity, their animation, their originality, their vitality, their warmth, their transcendent piety...
...taxpayers near the poverty line, Kennedy proposed to give them tax relief of only $920 million instead of the proposed $2.7 billion a year by limiting "lowincome allowances" in the House bill. Some 5,000,000 poor people who now pay taxes would still be excused from paying anything, Kennedy reckoned. Despite his proposal to cut the basic corporate income tax, Kennedy would keep most of the House bill's provisions that raise business taxes. The biggest such provision is the proposed elimination of the investment tax credit that now saves businesses $2.7 billion a year...
...mystery." President Jim Grady Waller lived up to his ads. "If a man needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still owe the F.D.I.C. but if they cannot pay, Washington will have to absorb the loss. "The bank understood the people," mourns Mayor Bruton, summing up what seems to be the prevailing philosophy of his town. "The inspectors just didn't understand the bank...
Almost half of the world's population is undernourished, and there is hunger even in the affluent U.S. Still, such a global surplus of wheat has piled up this year that producing nations are locked in a price war as they fight to get rid of their oversupply. The U.S., which allowed prices to sag last winter, has now reduced its wheat export prices three times within the past two months to counter cuts by Canada, Australia and France. The major wheat exporting nations are meeting this week in London, but despite their efforts, no agreement...