Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Warning. At Kennedy's request, a task force of economists headed by M.I.T. Professor Paul Samuelson, one of Kennedy's most trusted counselors, delivered a thick report which warned that 1) the slump is bad, and 2) it could very easily grow worse, with unemployment topping the post-World War II peak of 7½% Among other things, it urged fat federal unemployment subsidies to guarantee every jobless worker at least 50% of his wages for 39 weeks; big Government spending programs for health, welfare, urban renewal, school buildings and teachers' salaries; more construction of highways...
...were only occasionally late, just to catch the few consistently late arrivers whose habits would be known to supervisors anyway. He silenced the jangling bell in employees' canteens that announced when lunch periods were over, letting clerks decide among themselves when to eat, thus checking on each other. Thick manuals that covered what to do in any situation were tossed out, replaced by one slim book...
...show also offered a delicate "texturol-ogy" by Jean Dubuffet-a painting that looks at first like a piece of kitchen linoleum but then turns into a vision of outer space. The thick black crisscrossings of Pierre Soulages nicely complement Hans Hartung's "psychograms," which try to portray emotion through tapered lines of pure force...
...starboard, but the crew was able to bring her back to a 2° list by flooding portside compartments. Inspecting the gutted queen the next day, Navy Secretary William Franke found the flight deck catapults and most of the electronic equipment ruined, the 1¾-in.-thick steel main deck badly buckled. Total damage was reckoned at $75 million...
Died. Gregory Ratoff, 63, flamboyant actor, director and producer who played all his roles with a thick Russian accent, a $2,500-a-week asset of which he made light. ("Italian, I murder; Eenglish, I only manslaughter.") St. Petersburg-born, Ratoff left Russia after the Revolution, after years as a Broadway and Hollywood star won a reputation as one of filmdom's most versatile and gaudily garbed directors; of leukemia; in Solothurn, Switzerland...