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...Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller knew how Horatius must have felt. Though the Korean war ended nine years ago, it is still a hot political issue in New York: so far this year, the state's Democratic and Republican legislators have introduced nearly 50 bills to provide bonuses for the state's 482,000 Korean-war veterans or their next of kin. Nine state veterans' organizations, among them the powerful Legion, are conducting a high-pressure campaign for bonus legislation, and overseas-capped veterans swarm through the Albany legislative halls urging passage. New York City's Mayor...
...would like to stand here this evening as a real hero in your eyes," he said. "But in all good conscience, as responsible head of this government, I come before you with a heavy heart to say that I must oppose a bonus for Korean veterans." Money was more necessary for state spending on education, mental health and care for the aged, said Rocky. Furthermore, the state was "strapped," and could not afford the $100 million cost (which would give overseas veterans $250 each, others less) if it hoped to continue "meeting its obligations...
...they watch Laramie or the samurai dramas on their television set and right off the winter chill by toasting their feet on an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus of 6½ months' pay last year-that they also own a refrigerator, transistor radio, vacuum cleaner, electric iron and washer. If the expectant Kumiko presents him with a son next month, Seiji even talks confidently of sending the boy to a university. "What more could I want?" Seiji...
...short, the Brown meet will be a good breather for the Crimson after the tense Princeton meet last Saturday. Brown can give the second string a good workout, and the varsity may come back to Cambridge with a few Brown pool records as a bonus...
Though thoroughly argued, however, this is a minor point. Piel ought to deal with the questions raised by the experts' assumptions. But he dodges these; taking refuge in the possibility of a "counter-force plus bonus" attack, in which the enemy diverts a percentage of his missiles from military to civilian targets, or in the fact that since military targets are distributed over the whole country, both attack designs have the same effect. And both make defence impossible. But the point is that, if these possibilities are admitted, the "illusory" nature of civil defence is self-evident, and hardly requires...