Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson saw the bill, it was "the right measure at the right moment," blending "prudence and restraint" at a moment when the economy was bubbling along near capacity levels. Still, he cautioned, "if we allow our economy to run too far, too fast, we can expect demands for additional fiscal, price, wage, tax and expenditure restraints," adding: "I can make no prediction on the need for additional taxes later this year. No one can make that prediction...
...part of its six-year, $700 million highway safety bill, the Administration requested discretionary authority to establish automobile safety standards-and fully expected Congress to balk. As it turned out, Congressmen complained that the Administration had not gone sufficiently far or fast. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a stern evangelist of traffic safety when he was Governor of Connecticut, urged that the Administration should be required, not authorized, to set safety standards, adding that in any case they could not be incorporated until the 1970 models. Asked Ribicoff: "Are we going to watch 50 million new cars roll off the assembly lines...
...patient people," says Hubert Humphrey and most of the world agrees. Americans are seen-and see themselves-as restless and driven. New skyscrapers go up at the drop of a mortgage and are torn down almost as fast. Cars, houses, jobs and spouses are changed with an ease and rapidity that shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through...
Turning the pioneers' trading posts into towns, and the towns into cities, worked the same strain deeper into the American character. Fast-buck operators flourished, the rapid turnover and the quick profit were the dreams of many a businessman. But the more typical pattern for 19th century business and industry was the narrowed eye with the long view, the reinvested profit, the McGuffey and Horatio Alger mottoes on the mind...
What's big? powerful, fast steady, unbeatable, and getting better every day? The Harvard Track Team. Last year's squad was the best in the University's history, and this year's looks still better...