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Economy, the 90th Congress is learning to its embarrassment, is easier to preach than to practice. For nearly a year the recalcitrant lawmakers refused to approve the Administration's income tax surcharge until the President agreed to a $6 billion reduction in spending. Last week, faced with the actual task of trimming that much, they encountered formidable resistance...
...mere five votes. But the idea seems to be gaining favor. In recent years, polls have found that the majority of the population favors giving 18-year-olds the vote, and L.B.J.'s proposal joins more than 50 similar submissions that have been made to the 90th Congress. The opposition is typified by such stands as that of the New York Daily News, which facetiously urged that the voting age be raised to 30, or lowered to two. Johnson sees today's 18-year-olds "prepared by education, experience and exposure to public affairs." Letting them vote would...
...House of Representatives' current initiative to cut off Federal aid from students who disobey university regulations is a striking example of 90th Congress' confused and reactionary approach to the nation's most urgent problems. In approving the measure last week, the House showed once again, as it has in its responses to the riots and to the antiwar movement, that most of its members lack any understanding of the phenomena which they seek to suppress...
...your readers who boasts being above the 90th percentile in education and intelligence, says: "I still believe the Bible when it states that Jesus walked upon the water and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. No one has yet come up with any evidence to the contrary [April 5]." There is not a shred of evidence that the cow did not jump over the moon, or that Cinderella's coach was not turned into a pumpkin at midnight...
Nero Congress. There was some justification for the President's pique. Johnson knows only too well that the commission's imaginative recommendations for eradicating the squalor of the ghettos will seem intimidatingly ambitious to the penny-pinching 90th Congress. New York City's Mayor John Lindsay, vice chairman of the commission, warned that "the cost figure is relatively unimportant in terms of what we have to do in or der to save this country from the possibility of chaos." Nonetheless, with the Viet Nam war taking more than $2 billion monthly, Congress is in no mood...