Word: beclouds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe not-and President Johnson, for one, agrees with them. In his economic report to the Congress (see following story), the President last week wrote: "Economic policy has begun to liberate itself from the preconceptions of an earlier day and from the bitterness of class or partisan division that becloud rational discussion and hamper rational action." He not only proclaimed that the state of the economy is "excellent," but also predicted a "rising tide of prosperity" that will continue not only through the rest of this year but into the foreseeable future...
...keeps pushing such controversial legislation, he may not be around for too long. In Moscow, a new B. & K. diarchy is in power, but unless Brezhnev and Kosygin manage to work in tandem more effectively than Bulganin and Khrushchev did, an internal power struggle may grip Russia and becloud efforts for an East-West detente. Peking's atomic blast may make it more difficult than ever for the U.S. to keep nations along the periphery of Red China from falling under its influence. In Latin America, Johnson must take up the unfinished business of Fidel Castro, not to mention...
...been worked out. it appeared that the drug, chemical and food companies who contributed to Castro would be able to write off $25 million (at retail, not wholesale, prices) of the $53 million ransom as "charitable" deductions. Charitable it certainly was-but of the sort that might becloud the brow of the ordinary U.S. taxpayer, worried as he is by Administration threats to make him show receipts for every dime he hands out for charity...