Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obdurate was the mood on Capitol Hill that a joint conference committee moved not an inch toward resolving a dispute over a normally routine financing measure needed to fund agencies for which regular appropriations are still pending. The House wants to use the financing resolution as a lever to force the White House to make budget cuts of up to $8 billion while the Senate refuses to cooperate in the ploy. While the conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since...
...Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. "I am sad," he noted, "that the Supreme Court could not uphold the rights of individual citizens in the face of deliberate use of oppression...
...Just as they have turned against ideology, the brighter young Russians are now reluctant to go in for a party career. In an otherwise routine and un interesting anniversary speech last week, Brezhnev went so far as to refer to his regime as Russia's "New Frontier." The use of the slogan of John F. Kennedy's Administration may have been more than a coincidence: many Russian youths are admirers of the late U.S. President...
...chemical and biological warfare. The Universities of Pittsburgh and Minnesota are debating similar action; Stanford and N.Y.U. have applied severe restrictions to such work. Last week there were sit-ins and teach-ins at Michigan, protesting military research at the university. At Princeton, students have been bitterly protesting the use of university land for a government-founded Institute for Defense Analyses...
...Indicating another way that military projects can help academic research, the State University of New York last week bought two $8,500,000 surplus Atlas missile silos for $667 each. SUNY will use the silos to study the effects of cosmic rays on the aging of fruit flies and white rats. The Government has sold eight other surplus missile sites to educational institutions including Kansas State and Colorado State universities...