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...first amendment, proposed by Edwin McC. Martin, Jr. '63, asked Congress to "re-examine the structure and operation" of HUAC, instead of abolishing it. Martin claimed that it would be extremely difficult for Congress to abolish the Committee, and added that a re-evaluation of HUAC's goals would be possible if Congressman Frances Walter did not run for re-election...
...picket line of around 50 young people carry posters reading "Abolish' the Un-American Activities Committee" formed across the street at the beginning of the but, as one harassed YAF official put it. "It isn't the pickets who are giving it's the ticket holders...
...Preservation of the 4½% interest rate ceiling on long-term U.S. Government bonds is still an article of faith among liberal Democrats in Congress, but Heller calls the ceiling a "nostalgic" relic, wants Congress to abolish it so as to give the Treasury more flexibility in managing the national debt...
...Heller advocates a radical program of tax reform, but conservatives could well support it. He wants to lower the federal income tax rates from the present range of 20%-91% to 14%-60% and abolish virtually all loopholes and preferential deductions. Heller considers the present income tax structure not only inequitable, but uneconomic too: it impedes economic efficiency by distorting economic decisions. Thorough tax reform, he believes, would improve the U.S. economy's overall efficiency...
...time being, estimating that some 200,000 workers of the 700,000 in the industry will be displaced by the mergers currently pending and proposed. The Great Northern Pacific's backers are ready with an answer: in their ICC petition they estimate that the merger will abolish over five years only 5,100 of the lines' present 64,000 jobs, point out that each year some 4,000 jobs open up through retirements, resignations and deaths...