Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fulbright was taking potshots at the Pentagon's $660 million military-science research program, the $80 billion defense budget was getting a discouraging reception from tribal magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...
Wanted: Wilbur Mills. The arrests were made when more than 200 demonstrators marched to the Hill to demand that Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his potent House Ways and Means Committee repeal recent amendments limiting eligibility for the Aid for Dependent Children program. Mills has supplanted Lyndon Johnson as the pet hate of Negro militants-they plan to put up "Wanted" posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President...
...abandoning any real hope of keeping the governorship. But Shapiro seems determined to try. Although his inaugural was as modest as the man, Shapiro's first week in office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state buildings to fight an estimated $170,500,000 revenue shortage, helped launch a campaign to fight crime, poverty and urban blight, and fashioned such cordial ties with the state senate that its Republican majority leader praised Shapiro's "practical, realistic...
...recommend this as a political program, and I think this is frankly the limitation of my kind of thinking and my kind of work. I'm neither a political scientist nor a political leader. I'm working with people who are terribly caught up in a country they love--and they do love America, this is not romantic talk--a country they both love and want more from I want these people to have the kinds of lives they want to have. I don't want to impose my idea of the Good Life on them...
...suppose I'm interested in certain kinds of spiritual changes in life, changes that may be obtainable by any program...