Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Reserve Board, counseled Congress to enact a law requiring a balanced budget "and then, if it works well, take the constitutional route." Another conservative, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, "with great reluctance" conceded that some form of amendment is "the only way in which we can permanently curb [deficit spending...
More than a million American men have good reason to remember the place vividly, if not fondly: Fort Dix, N.J., was where they suffered through basic training. But if the Pentagon has its way. the rites of passage that have continued since 1917 at the center 75 long, long miles from New York City will be coming to an end. In a sweeping economy drive to whittle $264 million from its annual budget, the Pentagon last week announced plans to close down or reduce 157 military facilities, including the famous basic training center at Fort Dix. More than...
...late afternoon, and many of the 706 passengers of the Italian cruise ship Angelina Laura were straggling back after a day of shopping in the small seaport of Charlotte Amalie in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the galley, preparations were under way for dinner. Then an electrical wire caught fire, perhaps ignited by some burning grease, and soon the flames were spreading uncontrollably through the luxury liner. Said Fireman Boyd Brown: "There were flames shooting out of every porthole on all decks. It was like a towering inferno...
...traitor!" The chants were more audible to the sensitive TV microphones than to the live audience, and Walter Cronkite complained mildly to the world. Carter wrinkled his brow for a few minutes. The shouted dissents soon were muffled in the city sounds and largely forgotten. Protest is a way of life in Lafayette Square...
...State Department, announced the signing in a firm full voice. Pens glided smoothly across the pages, and in a few minutes Carter looked up from the last signature and said, "Let's have a handshake." Applause rose again as the men came together and clasped in a three-way grip like a debating team that had just won the match...