Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Lyndon decided that it was time for action. He ordered the convention planners to hold off the J.F.K. memorial program till late in the convention week. He called in Bobby Kennedy, told him that he was no longer a vice-presidential possibility, and hinted that it would be best if Bobby publicly disavowed any ambitions for the office. Bobby refused. After all, he explained rather obliquely, he had not announced his candidacy, so why should he withdraw...
...joined the Council of Economic Advisers, moved to Budget in 1962. He is attuned to Johnson's penchant for quick answers to questions, keeps on his desk a sheet of paper with the latest federal employment figures. From the time he arrives at work in his battered Renault till he leaves for home in suburban Maryland, Gordon is a prodigious worker; the 80-hour, seven-day week he put in last week is not unusual. Gordon likes to joke that Johnson has stopped calling him at midnight or at 6 in the morning, now "confines his calls to office...
...White-Sneakered Amateurs." But even as the torrent of testimony continued to flow in public, the real shaping and shuffling of the platform planks took place in the nighttime privacy of hotel rooms, where drafting subcommittees worked till dawn. Frustrated by the Goldwater forces' kill-'em-with-kindness strategy, anti-Goldwater leaders fell to squabbling among themselves. Scranton-supporting committee members, led by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, wrote 31 different drafts of a proposed civil rights plank before they could agree...
...whether Sarit had actually dipped into the till, the committee said that to date it had traced $17.8 million of government money to Sarit's estate. Committee Chairman Phra Manuvej Vimolmath said that part of a state fund of 12 million tickels ($600,000) had gone exclusively to Sarit's minor wives. The money, he said, came from a special government account known as the Funds for Secret Work...
...entire $6,400,000 highway appropriation, once appointed 600 men to the single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks, who became a millionaire by dipping into the till. His mistake was once inviting General Artur da Costa e Silva to visit his sumptuous apartment, showing off his wardrobe ("Fifty white linen suits alone," he beamed). Came the revolution, and Costa e Silva, now Brazil's hardheaded War Minister, personally entered the banker's name...