Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language of the indictment encompasses most criticism. It charges, among other things, that Reagan "is not competent in matters of government . . . has undermined and demoralized the entire California health program . . . has injured the university and state college system [and] is attempting to further his personal ambitions at the expense of the people...
...William Fulbright is quite likely the world's best-known Arkansan. An international scholarship program bears his name. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has become a hero to dissenters everywhere who oppose the war in Viet Nam. Twice, he has been a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet last week he was doing his durnedest to come across as "just plain Bill...
Nonetheless, the lackluster or extremist quality of his opponents is likely to ensure Fulbright a fifth term. One candidate, Foster Johnson, 53, campaigns wearing a sandwich board "so nobody will have any trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first...
...madness to so jeopardize our own security and the orderly progression of the world." But House members had al ready unsheathed their sharpest knives and, in a callously contrived show of economy, hacked the aid authorization to bare bones. The modest $2.9 billion Administration request, smallest in the aid program's 21-year history, was cut by nearly $ 1 billion before being passed by a 228-to-184 vote...
...debate, it appeared that a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats might kill foreign aid altogether for fiscal 1969. Earlier, the Republicans had met behind closed doors with Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon, who was asked over a hearty breakfast of steak and eggs how he would vote on the program. "If I came from a tight district," said the candidate, "I'd vote against it. If I did not-and it would not defeat me-I'd vote for it." Concluded Nixon: "You should cut it as much...