Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a Senator wanted to get into the act by amending the bill to include regional aid programs in his own home territory. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy had a plan for New England, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan one for the Ozarks, and Michigan Democrat Patrick McNamara one for the Upper Great Lakes area. Arguing that such additions would smother the original Appalachia plan and promising that President Johnson would soon send other regional programs to Congress, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to dissuade the Senators from offering their amendments. All, that is, except Robert Kennedy...
When President Johnson fell ill, it was "an upper respiratory infection." Last week, as more Washington bigwigs fell prey to swarming viruses, Washington gossip dubbed the disease "executive flu" and blamed its spread on too many people being crammed into tight spaces-such as the White House dance floor. To most victims, the trouble remains an unglorified bad cold. By any name, and of whatever severity, it is still a mystery...
...Palestine as a refugee in 1947. She joined a kibbutz, served in the Israeli army, raised her son and daughter as Jews, and though nonobservant, celebrates Judaism's major feasts in her house. Now she is a town councilor of Israel's Mapai (Labor) Party in Upper Nazareth...
...plans of re-organization emerged. One, the official Phillips-Council plan, recommended retaining the Council, but enlarging its membership to include the presidents of all undergraduate organizations and five members of each of the three upper classes. The other, recommended by Dunster House and endorsed by Dean Monro, advocated abolition of the Council and a reformation under the name of Student Affairs Committee. The new group would be made up of two representatives from each House and three from the freshman class...
Further north, Glen Ellen in Fayston boasts the greatest vertical drop in the East, 2645 feet, and will open its second season with a new double chair, making three in all. The upper half of a new FIS-calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of 80 degrees. A new mid-mountain restaurant has also been added this year. Madonna Mountain (formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new glant sialoza trail has been out which drops...