Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court killed Virginia's miscegenation law, 16 states still banned interracial marriage. More to the point, and more poignant, in a year when blackwhite animosity has reached a violent crescendo in the land, two young people and their parents showed that separateness is far from the sum total of race relations in the U.S.-that to the marriage of true minds, color should be no impediment. Indrawn as usual, Rusk pronounced himself "very pleased." Clarence Smith, Guy's father, said simply: "Two people in love...
...billion would finance apartments for tenants supported by the rent supplements, it represents tangible evidence for conservative Congressmen that business not only supports the program, but will also provide more than enough private financing to get it under way. Given the need, even $1 billion is not a large sum, but as a breakthrough in bringing private enterprise into an area it has traditionally shunned, it may have an importance beyond all accounting...
...fact that 75% ended in losses. So strong is the possibility of loss that brokers do not want to do business with women speculators because they "cry about it." In this specialized market, says University of Illinois Professor of Agricultural Economics T. A. Hieronymus, "speculation is a zero sum game in which speculators vie with each other for profits that they, in the aggregate, cannot achieve...
Nothing exceeds like success. Eliminations within each country to determine the national entries in next sum mer's international championships will be starting shortly. And entry applications have already been received from two eager new contenders-Sweden and Spain...
...gesture toward the House, the Senate Appropriations Committee gave President Johnson a much needed legislative victory. Not only did it give him more than double (to $537 million) the sum that the House had reluctantly voted for the model-cities program; it also approved his $40 million request for rent subsidies, which had been killed in tow by the House. Though both measures must still be approved by the full Senate, there is a good chance that both will emerge intact for a fifty-fifty compromise with the House...