Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...finally pushing hard for his Family Assistance Plan, which would shift more of the cost of welfare to the Federal Government, and guarantee qualifying families a minimum annual income. While liberals consider the income levels inadequate and the bill full of technical flaws, there was hope that the general principle would be accepted. The House passed one version of the plan. But as the filibuster against trade quotas broke out in the Senate, the welfare plan seemed locked even more closely into the same bill and was almost certainly doomed. A key opponent of the plan, Delaware Republican John...
...feels that Nixon could be had on the economic issue." Nixon, announcing the appointment, pleaded for a bipartisan approach to the nation's problems. If that is what he really wants, he might have chosen instead to install a more liberal Democrat where it really counts-as Attorney General, say, or as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...lieutenant commander decorated three times as a flight officer on the carrier Essex. Connally used his mustering-out pay to open a radio station in Austin with ten other veterans-among them Congressman Jake Pickle and Judge Homer Thornberry, an L.B.J. Supreme Court nominee-and for three years was general manager and the largest stockholder of KVET...
From Saigon word came that General Creighton Abrams Jr., 56, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam who previously indicated no religious preference, has joined the Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird dedicated a small room in the Aring as a place for meditation and prayer. "In a sense, this ceremony marks the completion of the Pentagon," said Secretary Laird. "Peace is the business of this building...
That was the hour when a General Motors tool repairman named Francis Cronk accepted a collect call from the Traverse City state hospital for mental patients. His mentally retarded son, John David Cronk, 26, had died. The hospital autopsy claimed ''acute pulmonary congestion." Dismayed, the Cronks ordered another autopsy by a private pathologist, Dr. Charles E. Black. His report was startling: death had resulted from severe chest and abdominal injuries, including contusions of the lungs, stomach and diaphragm, apparently caused by beatings. Three weeks later, Weekender published its own account of Cronk's death as well...