Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dressed in black tie and tux, Prime Minister Ian Smith jerked a piece of bunting one night last week to ring a 250-lb. bronze replica of the Liberty Bell. "I toll for justice, Christianity and civilization," cried Smith at a ball celebrating the first anniversary of his Unilateral Declaration of Independence. "Every time it chimes it will be another nail in the coffin of those who want to interfere in the internal affairs of Rhodesia." Then Smith and his wife went out on the dance floor to kick the gong around...
...many who believe that there was a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy in Dallas, the most mesmeric argument of all is that an extraordinary number of people involved in the case -however remotely-have since lost their lives under mysterious circumstances. As of last week, the toll had, in fact, reached 14. To conspiracy theorists, the clear implication is that the victims knew too much and were systematically liquidated...
Local issues also plague Rockefeller. In Buffalo, for instance, his administration built a badly needed throughway, but put a toll bridge on it and began collecting money from commuters who, unlike their New York City counterparts, are not use to paying out dimes every time they go to work. They hate the governor in some parts of Buffalo...
School Bells' Toll. Other budget directors apparently feel the same way, for not one major spending program has been cut back, not one major bond issue has been deleted from next week's ballot in response to the Administration's efforts. Voters will be asked to approve almost $2 billion in new spending, ranging from $230 million for higher education in California to $25,000 for fire apparatus in Austinberg Township, Ohio...
...gone to work producing steel and rebuilding auto parts in Chicago, loading post-office vans and delivering the mail in Atlanta, welding and operating metal-stamping machines in Fort Worth, driving cabs in Seattle, running power cranes in Los Angeles, and pumping gas at service stations along the Illinois Toll Road. Elsewhere, women have been engaged as draftsmen, meatcutters, warehouse laborers, helicopter pilots and company guards...