Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year he tried hard to make the case for a long-term foreign-aid program before a meat-ax-minded Congress, and, with a sizable assist from the President, won impressive support for his case (although Congress has yet to vote the requested $3.8 billion appropriation...
Last week Hollister took up his option to resign at the end of a two-year term, sent a letter of resignation to the President that showed just how far he had come. Foreign aid, when properly administered and wisely aimed, is effective and essential to mutual security, he concluded. "This must continue as long as aggressive international Communism threatens us. In the nature of things this far-flung effort ... is occasionally wasteful and inefficient. Chances must be taken, and in many cases it will be some years before we can see how successful the gamble may have been." Then...
...Program. One man with a program is President Pedro Aramburu, who pushed through the assembly plan in hopes that the group will be elected in orderly fashion July 28 and get to work Sept. 1 on an overhaul of the constitution. The Aramburu regime wants 1) a one-term limit for Presidents, 2) curbs on the President's power to legislate by decree when the Congress is adjourned, 3) repeal of the President's right to replace provincial governors at will, and 4) a stronger civil service system. Such a document, says he, would be "a death certificate...
...return for a $209,701 Government payment, then turned around and plowed up a new farm to grow three times as much cotton. Cried Congressman Udall: "Here is boondoggling on a grand scale. Indeed, the word boondoggling is utterly inadequate to describe this program. We should coin a new term, boonswoggling...
...would be a mistake to regard Thieves' Carnival solely as a play. Anouilh went back to some of the Moliere works and resurrected the term comedie ballet. For its full effect, this show relies heavily on dancing. The roles of the Musician, the two policemen and the nursemaid are all dancing parts...