Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original Kennedy farm program included jail sentences for some farmers who failed to cooperate. Wrote Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May to her constituents about the meeting: "He declared that if any of these proposed regimented programs became law he would be darned if he just wouldn't rather go to jail than to submit." Ike will not be jailed-the provision was dropped from the bill...
...West's economic vitality as compared with its own weakness. One of Russia's great economic defeats was dramatized last week when Moscow boosted meat prices 30% and butter prices 25%-the sharpest cost-of-living increase in Russia since World War II. Said Nikita:."I wouldn't say that this was pleasant for the people." But he argued that the move was necessary. Reason: collective farmers "have not been materially interested in increasing their output" because prices were so low. But the government claimed it could not divert funds from defense for farm incentive payments...
Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, said that "we expect the public school group to outperform, and they do. If academic standing were the only criterion, we should take more public school students. But it isn't: we wouldn't want to admit nothing but "summa" candidates...
Happily unflustered was the culprit: Senior Jessica Moore, 17, the straight-A student editor of Talon, who had simply picked Marx's maxim out of Bartlett's Familiar (but not everywhere) Quotations. "If anyone other than Marx had said it," she remarked sensibly, "there wouldn't have been any excitement." Then Jessica went off to accept a long-scheduled honor: a citizenship award from the Memphis branch of the D.A.R...
...scrupulous adherence to the 15-to-1 rule, notes Executive Vice President Charles Bliss of the Bank of New York, would mean that the funds and insurance companies would move back into the market heavily only after the Dow-Jones drops another 70 to 540. Adds Bliss: "I wouldn't be surprised if the Dow-Jones earnings dropped to $33 in the first quarter of next year, and then the index would have to go down to 500 before you started buying...