Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stray Millions. The proposals for a uniform departmental budget cut, a pay-raise moratorium and personal salary reductions got nowhere. Nixon, however, made it clear that Government spending had to be cut down as close to $200 billion as possible. But snipping out $3 billion or so, even from a spending schedule of $203.5 billion, is far from easy. Expenditures such as debt service and pensions are mandated by law. Programs in other areas had already been subjected to the big squeeze. Yet the presidential directive insisted that more gristle be found. Higher excise taxes on consumer products-which Congress...
...decades. The radical young dwell in a projection of the '70s. The values of many of their fathers are the ethics of the Depression, of World War II or the later '40s. In the imagination of his ideals, the Middle American glimpses cracked snapshots through a scrim: a khaki uniform, trousers gathered at the waist; a souvenir samurai sword; a "ruptured duck"; a girl with Betty Grable hair and hemline; the lawn of a barely remembered house. The ideological order that he sees is a civics-book sense of decency. The Depression taught him the wisdom of accumulation...
...outcome was not clear-cut. Charged on 13 counts, including assault and inciting to riot during the summer eruptions, an uncharacteristically subdued Bernadette denied everything-save for having organized a defense brigade and having thrown "one stone." Throughout the trial, she never wore her blue jeans-and-boots barricade uniform, preferring fur-trimmed maxi outfits instead. Her language, too, had changed. During last summer's rioting, the prosecution charged, she had roared out: "The black bastards [police] are beaten -they're out of gas!" Said Bernadette demurely: "I imagine if I used such language in public, even fewer...