Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little City Halls. Slow as it is in coming, some progress is also being made in eliminating conditions that promote unrest. Unemployment is at its lowest point in 15 years. Although there has been no major infusion of federal money recently, expanded recreation, job and housing programs are under way in many cities. The Youth Advisory Council of Greater Los Angeles is coordinating federal, state and local job programs, and the State Employment Service plans to find jobs for all graduating high school seniors before they have a chance to waste the summer. A Model Cities program has been launched...
Detroit is running an $8.9 million recreation program, and the police, who came in for heavy criticism for their role in the 1967 rioting, are preparing their own sports program for youth...
...Isidro was such a bust that scalpers outside the Plaza Monumental were hustling one another. Could you comprehend, Papa, that this Chartres of the taurine religion was filled only once in 16 days, and then only because three top matadors were crowded together in undignified fashion on the program? Other days, sprinkles of faithful filled the arena instead, with strident three-syllable screams of "Novillero!" (Novice) hurled at inept performers. Or, in ultimate insult, they turned their backs on the orange sand to wave their tickets in rage at the corrida president...
...critical of society, yet he remains an optimist. As he looks ahead, he predicts that by 1976 the welfare state will have met most human needs through "medicare, denticare, judicare, menticare and ped-icare." And then Actor Rock Hunter will run for the presidency by advocating "the greatest welfare program of them all." From coast to coast, Hunter will thunder: "Do you realize that two-thirds of our nation goes to bed each night ill-content, underloved and alone?" Hunter's answer: "Sexicare...
...Congress and the public are deeply concerned about the spiraling costs of new weapons systems and their frequent failure to perform up to expectations. High prices and technical flaws plague many major weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both are built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., whose $2.2 billion in sales last year were made...