Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bassos, by nature's design, are made-to-order heavies - big, beefy, barrel-chested; bouncers who can carry a tune. The foghorn pitch of their voices suggests heartaches not heroics, lechery not love. Bulgaria's Nicolai Ghiaurov, at 6 ft. 2 in. and 200 Ibs., is no exception. Yet in the six short years since he emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, he has won the kind of hand-to-heart adulation usually reserved for tenors...
...Massachusetts (where the sandy-bottomed bogs of Cape Cod prove most hospitable to the berry), New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington State. Formed by a series of mergers in 1930, it has taken much of the risk and uncertainty out of cranberry growing, this fall paid growers $13.99 a barrel for the 1.2 million barrels that their bogs produced; at one time, the price was as low as $3 a barrel...
Peppery Pronunciamento. The President signed dozens of bills, notably the pork-barrel measure authorizing $1.9 billion for various river and harbor projects, and the $4.3 billion public works bill. After he signed the rivers-and-harbors bill, Johnson issued a peppery pronunciamento warning that he had absolutely no intention of implementing the act's provision that water-resources projects costing under $10 million be authorized by congressional public works committees-a short cut that would bypass the possibility of a presidential veto. Discussing this section, the President declared: "The people of this country did not elect me to this...
While some 300 Roxbury parents are scraping the bottom of the barrel to bus their children out of ghetto schools, the School Committee coolly sanctions overcrowding in Roxbury--and in white Charlestown. While white neighborhood schools accept Operation Exodus peacefully, the Hicks alliance refuses to heed this lesson...
Pork Prize. More substantive measures authorized a $1.4 billion vocational-rehabilitation program, a $178 million-a-year 10% increase in disabled veterans' pensions, and the traditional pork-barrel prize for the Congressmen themselves: 140 pet rivers-and-harbors projects in 41 states, at a cost of $2 billion. And, as always with the 89th, the week saw one major Administration victory: final passage of President Johnson's $2.3 billion higher-education bill establishing the nation's first undergraduate federal scholarships...