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Still ahead, with Brown optimistic, are two major measures. One would raise $200 million in additional tax revenue (including $60 million more in income taxes) to help balance a $2 billion biennial budget. The other, equally basic: a development program calling for $1.13 billion initially to ease southern Califor nia's water shortage by piping in northern California water...
...Washington for its 47th annual meeting. A top item on the agenda was an annual policy statement that was expected to repeat the chamber's traditionally liberal view of foreign trade, plumping for reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing the rope, bicycle, textile, brass and copper industries, all hard hit by foreign competition, they huddled...
...foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension...
...century. Washington's Corcoran Gallery has been a staunch patron of American art. This week it marks its 100th birthday with a two-city celebration: a loan exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery of outstanding pictures drawn from its collection and its regular biennial roundup of contemporary U.S. paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European...
...last week, when Pietro Nenni rose to speak at his party's biennial congress in Naples, Fanfani's dreams and the right-wingers' fears became academic. Weaving and bobbing around the microphone, Nenni shouted: "This government has almost been brought to the ground, which is already scattered with the bones of some of its most notable members . . . The policy of Fanfani is a phony socialism, with echelons of plans and reforms favorable only to monopolistic groups . . . Christian Democracy spells zero, and on zero you can build nothing. Our place is in the opposition." Furthermore, declared Nenni: "Prejudice...