Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first tentative step to recovery. Uruguayan economists, with Alianza help, have put together a ten-year development plan which runs to 3,600 pages, calls for a sweeping reorganization of the country's social security system, sharp restrictions on imports, and increased agricultural production for export. Given the temper of Uruguay's 1,000,000-man work force, any steps at all may well prove impossible. Last week 130,000 government workers rejected a relatively reasonable 15% raise, walked off their jobs demanding a fat 60% wage hike...
...Tales of Temper. It all began when Olin Mathieson, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminum announced plans to raise prices of primary aluminum about 2%, from 241? to 250 per Ib. Two days later, the Texas White House quiet ly posted a notice that White House Special Assistant Joe Califano would meet with three Cabinet secretaries (Defense's Robert McNamara, Treas ury's Henry Fowler, Commerce's John Connor) to consider ways of selling part of the Government's huge aluminum stockpile. Though the notice said nothing about prices, the New York Times, acting on information from...
Taking up the scent, other newspapers elaborated on the theme; soon, Administration sources were quoted describing Johnson as "foaming at the mouth." Disturbed by this overdrawn image, the Texas White House began issuing denials. The President's temper, said his aides, was quite cool. The stockpile meeting, announced Press Secretary Bill Moyers, was one of a series that had begun in January with industry representatives to seek a long-range plan to dispose of surplus aluminum...
...first week of August, with the aid pledge still in limbo, Ayub attacked the U.S. in a broadcast for using the funds as a political weapon. He asserted Pakistan's "right to normalize our relations with our neighbors however different our ideologies might be." But Johnson's temper only rose, and finally a frustrated Ayub sent carefully trained guerillas across the cease-fire line into Indian Kashmir. His timing indicates that the United States rather than the United Nations had actually been responsible for maintaining that fragile armistice. When American-Pakistani relations broke down, Ayub could see no point...
...personality. He has a quiet charm, exercised mostly in private; few find him brilliant, but on occasion, before an audience he deems especially congenial or knowledgeable, he is remarkably illuminating. He gives the impression of being bland, and many of his admirers just wish he would lose his temper once in a while. He is a student of foreign affairs, not an innovator; a reflective man allowed little time for reflection by the pace of his present position...