Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prices are moving up too fast to be comfortable," the President complained to a convention of mayors. "Increases at these rates cannot long be tolerated." The President then brought up a subject that has become just about the major source of speculation in Washington: the possibility of a tax increase. Despite widespread urgings by such economists as M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson that taxes be hiked to head off inflation, Johnson has repeatedly said that he considers a tax hike a last resort and that he has not made up his mind to ask for one. If the price situation...
...Bend had not seen such commotion since Pancho Villa tromped over the border in 1916, and it was hardly prepared for the crush. Extra telephone lines and fast-transmission Telex machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch...
...great timekeeping hodgepodge costs railroads, airlines and bus companies millions of dollars a year just for printing and distributing revised timetables. But the obvious answer, nationwide D.S.T., has long been opposed by farmers who argue that "fast time," as they call it, wrecks their harvests since they cannot begin work until the dew is off the hay. Furthermore, they complain, it is one thing to tell a man to get up an hour earlier, quite another thing to tell...
Kiddies' Aspirin. Critics who thought that Goddard was going too far too fast, and was likely to have higher authority slam on the brakes, were disabused of that notion by President Johnson's message to Congress on consumer interests. The President said he had appointed Goddard to give the agency "new leadership and new direction [and] a new structure fitted to the demands of the times...
Indoor tennis has been played on a lot of surfaces. First there was wood, which picked up glare like ballroom parquet, bounced the ball sickeningly fast and with a deadly skid. Then there was canvas, which killed the reflections -but that was about all. Last week, when the $25,000 New York pro tournament opened in Madison Square Garden, a vast improvement was on hand to finally make volleying under the bright lights at least two-thirds as nice as the grass game at Forest Hills. It is a thin green rubber surface, made by U.S. Rubber, that...