Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some $80 million a year. Kennedy has already sent General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...
...when he opened the traditional scuffed dispatch case and began to read his speech, the chancellor had a pleasant surprise for most Britons. For the great majority, income tax would remain the same, and for one important group-the successful executives and skilled professionals in the $5,600 to $11,200 income group-they actually would drop sharply. "In the modern world," said Lloyd, "the work of the manager, the scientist, the technologist" must not be taxed out of existence. As if anticipating the angry protests from the Labor benches at this boon to a special high-salaried class, Lloyd...
Keeping It Out. Last week, in a series of articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Correspondent Richard Dudman added a few more details: "Middlemen sold some of the food to the starving at exorbitant prices. A wealthy landowner succeeded in keeping relief food out of [a nearby] valley so he could continue selling his own wheat at three times the normal price. Mills at Cuzco and Arequipa charged the drought-relief program 27? to 32? per 100 Ibs. for grinding grain when their normal fee was only 6?. Analysis of the flour showed it contained large amounts of dirt...
...viewed on the nation's TV screens, the reporters' clamor for presidential recognition sometimes seems riotous. Some of the newsmen are plainly overcome by the possibilities for personal publicity in the televised conference. Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's sobersided Raymond...
...master prepared a message describing the symptoms and the treatment already given, and concluding: "Please instruct therapy." He ordered "Sparks" to send it to MEDRAD CIRM ROME. With that address, the radio dispatch took precedence over all traffic except S O S. On the second floor of an old yellow building in the center of Rome, an Italian navy radioman handed the message at once to the medical officer on duty...