Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion authorization for the model cities program, which got only $312 million last year, "to rebuild the centers of American cities...
...five-year child-health program to give poor families access to services ranging from prenatal care of mothers to free medical service through the first year of a baby's life. "It is a shocking fact," said Johnson, "that in saving the lives of babies, America ranks 15th among the nations of the world." - A wide range of new consumer-protection programs, including some already approved by the Senate but not the House (truth in lending, gas-pipeline safety) and several approved by neither (among them, a wholesome-fish-and-poultry act). He also proposed appointing a consumer counsel...
...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and ruddy-cheeked Clifford who was selected by John F. Kennedy to program the takeover of power from President Eisenhower in 1960. And it was Clif ford's cool, analytical arguments against extending the 1965 Christmas pause in bombing North Viet Nam that have lingered in the President's mind as right -even though Johnson bowed to other pressures and grounded the planes for 37 days. Clifford was called to the White House Situation Room when war flared in the Middle East last June and Mos cow activated the "hot line...
...Communist guerrillas were terrorizing the countryside. Webber immediately expanded counterinsurgency training within Guatemala's 5,000-man army, brought in U.S. Jeeps, trucks, communications equipment and helicopters to give the army more firepower and mobility, and breathed new life into the army's civic-action program...
...town of Nam Bac sits in a fertile valley astride communication routes from Dienbienphu in North Viet Nam to Communist areas of Laos, and was an important Royalist island in Pathet Lao territory. The Royalists had taken the town from the Reds two years ago, started a rural-development program, and promised the peasants that they would defend them...