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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hiring replacements for staffers who quit. >Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) spent $625,000 last year, managed to stay even with its income. The current budget is $500,000. Most of S.C.L.C.'s cash comes from big-name (Harry Belafonte, Mahalia Jackson) benefit performances, from monthly direct-mail appeals, or from book royalties and speaking appearances by King, who raises as much as $10,000 from a single talk. Oddly enough, S.C.L.C. figures that it lost money because King got the Nobel Peace Prize: it kept him away from his normal speaking schedule...
...established America's ski terrain as equal to Europe's best, the 1964 games proved that American skiers were on a par with the crack Europeans. Olympic publicity in 1960 boomed interest in the sport the following winter, and there is every reason to expect the coming season to benefit in the same...
Commenting on his letter in yesterday's New York Times, Louis B. Sohn, Bemis Professor of International Law, said last night that a complex system would enable all sides in the dispute to benefit from the final solution...
...west. In Southern California, nine industrial companies are building or planning projects embracing 319 sq. mi. Since land is the world's only major commodity in fixed supply, while population constantly rises, investment in land is, in the long run, the nearest to a sure thing. Owners also benefit from low assessments and taxes on raw land, which make it cheap to hold off the market while its value rises, and have other advantages under federal...
...sharpest battles will come over heavier taxes levied on major industries hat benefit from specialized federal services. The budget seeks increased fuel and equipment taxes on trucks and buses to bring in another $247 million annually and help defray the additional $5.8 billion that will be needed to finish the 41,000-mile federal highways system. It also asks $240 million more in taxes on aviation fuels and the flourishing air-freight business, and a continuation of the 5% surcharge on airline passenger tickets. Truckers, airlines and inland-waterway operators, the last of which would have...