Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, he would submit a balanced budget of $79.8 billion-and this time the U.S. ought to rack up a surplus of $4.2 billion. The surplus would not go to a tax cut, but to cut down the $290 billion national debt. The President added an unfamiliar note: "Personally I do not feel that any amount can be properly called a surplus as long as the nation is in debt. I prefer to think of such an item as reduction on our children's inherited mortgage...
After only 28 performances on Broadway, Only in America, a comedy based on the life of Harry Golden, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and editor (the bimonthly Carolina Israelite), closed and faded into oblivion. Taking sad note of the closing in the current Israelite, Golden speaks on the power of the Broadway critics, whose predominantly unfavorable reviews helped kill the show...
Menu Change. In Rome, Ga., Joseph A. Mize complained to police that the thief who had been taking milk from his front porch left a note to the milkman for two quarts of chocolate milk, took them away...
...fatal crashes of scheduled U.S. passenger planes last year. Counting cargo, nonscheduled and training flights, there were 18 fatal accidents, with 329 deaths. On scheduled flights, the fatality rate jumped from .38 per 100 million passenger miles in 1958 to .73 in 1959, highest since 1952. The only bright note was that scheduled pure jets had no fatal mishaps (but there were two fatal crashes of turboprop Electras, and another of a turboprop Viscount...
Passing the Buck. In Hong Kong, sentenced to six months in jail for making bank-note plates in their apartment, Wong Shum and Lam Hin-shun explained that the plates were for Christmas cards...