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...With vigor and imagination, Marcos has set out to eliminate smuggling, which bleeds the treasury of $100 million in taxes a year; streamline swollen bureaucracies where graft has long been a way of life; and, especially, reform an anachronistic agricultural economy that has as much acreage under cultivation as Japan but turns out only 25% as much rice. Impressed by such beginnings, Lyndon Johnson last week promised his guest everything he came to Washington to get. The U.S. agreed to: - Provide an added $21 million (to the current $24 million) for such agricultural programs as irrigation, rice growing and rural...
Mint Green. "Brownie," as he had been called since childhood, had plenty of vim and vigor and decided to give the place a shaking-up. He also clasped to his bosom an ex-pressagent named Hy Gardner. Gardner got a gossip column and a big voice in the upper echelons. Soon Brownie brought in a dismally square Tangle Towns puzzle contest, a mint-green third section, a weekly pocket TV magazine (editor: Gardner), and an early-bird edition that came out at 8 p.m. The puzzles boosted circulation, but the green section did nothing, the TV guide lost money...
...this production. Northumberland (Stephen Pearlman) comes on looking like Basil Rathbone, but our hopes are dashed when that hoarse, ugly voice begins to speak, And so it goes with the rest, whom I shall not bother to name. The sole exception is David Little's Lancaster, which has youth, vigor and vocal clarity; he brings much-needed life to the scenes...
...Illinois' senatorial primaries, Republican Charles Percy, 46, won easily. In nearly complete returns, he amassed 502,421 votes to 56,328 for two minor rivals, while three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, unopposed, picked up 747,896 votes. Too many imponderables make predictions risky, but the new vigor of the Daley machine will not make things easier for Charles Percy...
...Hickory "who brought the people into the White House" than because he was the victor of New Orleans. Teddy Roosevelt may have changed the course of human events less significantly than Woodrow Wilson, who led the U.S. into World War I. But Teddy's robust vigor captured the American imagination, while there lingered about Wilson, even in his martyrdom, a distressing air of the austere schoolmaster...