Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper, it would appear that the President did not run very far, and even faced up to the problem. By August he had proposed a revenue sharing plan "asking that a set amount of Federal revenues be returned annually to the states to be used as the states and their local governments see fit-without Federal strings...
...Nixon Administration brought last week's ruling upon itself. Last July, Nixon settled upon a desegregation policy that would concentrate upon progress through court orders rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from noncomplying school districts. In August, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, supported by Attorney General lohn Mitchell, granted 33 Mississippi school districts a grace period of three months, until Dec. 1, to adopt a HEW-drawn plan for desegregation. Actual integration would have been delayed even further...
Relief Provisions. Although the Finance Committee measure stops short of the "relief and reform" bill passed by the House last August, it still represents a major step toward equalizing the federal tax burden. Using the House bill as a guide, the Finance Committee removed 5,200,000 low-income taxpayers from the tax rolls entirely, and voted rate reductions averaging 5% for those in all but the highest income categories by 1972. It also approved an increase in the 10% or $1,000 standard deduction now claimed by most taxpayers, lifting it by stages to a new maximum...
...survey covered 1,589 people, 81% of whom said they have been following the case at least "fairly closely." Since Kennedy had figured prominently in presidential speculation, Harris matched him against the 1968 Republican and American Independent candidates to see how he stood in August and at the present. The sampling immediately after the accident gave Nixon 48%, Kennedy 38% and George Wallace 8%. Now Nixon gets 54%, Kennedy 30%, and Wallace 9%. Other results of the two polls are summarized in a series of statements with which respondents were asked to agree or disagree...
...Afro-American Society seized the building-which has been under construction since last August-with the demand that the administration halt construction and stop payment to the company while the suit is being litigated in the courts...