Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Welfare State. In its economics, the platform offers a kind of Populism that has gone to Harvard (home of Kennedy's professorial advisers John Kenneth, Galbraith and Archibald Cox). Instead of lacing the "wolves of Wall Street" and the bankers for such high crimes as tight money and high interest rates, it blames Republican Washington-and offers a glittering prospect if the Democrats are returned to office. The platform makes bows to the free-enterprise system ("the most creative and productive form of economic order that the world has seen") and to fiscal sobriety ("needs can be met with...
...midweek it seemed if every Cabinet minister was crying help from somewhere. The Deputy Pre mier asked tiny Ghana to send its army. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko for U.S. troops, but his appeal was promptly disavowed by Lumumba, who had been off on one of his flights. Lu mumba instead asked the U.N. for help, and hinted darkly that unless he got it, the Congo would appeal to Communist China. No one in the Congolese government asked Belgium for anything, but Brussels moved swiftly in response to the cries of its beleaguered citizens. Para troops and commando units fanned...
Booming Voice. In a career that spanned more than a quarter-century, Tibbett ranged through more than 70 roles. He was never a leading Wagnerian, instead concentrated on the great baritone roles of the Italian repertory: lago in Otello, the elder Germont in Traviata, Scarpia in Tosca, Amonasro in A'ida. For Tibbett the Met scheduled rarely performed operas such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and it was Tibbett, a longtime champion of English-language opera, who created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter...
...reason that small businesses do not land contracts more often, argues Rod, is that they do not find out what the military services want and then develop the products. Instead, they go to the Small Business Administration and plead their smallness. Rod set out aggressively to cultivate younger officers in the Pentagon, to find out service needs, and in 1956, the Air Force asked Acoustica if it had any ideas for the Atlas. Rod thought that the sensor would be just the thing. To get on the master bidders' list of defense contractors for other company products, he inundated...
Terrace does not really attempt to portray reality. Instead, it captures what someone in Beverly Hills apparently thought someone in Kansas City would imagine to be the behavior of the East Coast's sinful rich. Says Newman to his breathless love: "You're the first person I've asked to go out with me since I've been married...