Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cuts down to his figure. But Albert is slightly optimistic, says: "I do think something can be worked out." The President also wants Congress to ensure quickie tax-cut procedures that would allow fast-but temporary-action should a recession appear in the offing. Well aware that the legislative branch is savagely jealous of its taxation powers, Johnson wisely planned to leave the authority for quick cuts with the Congress rather than ask for the power himself-as John Kennedy had done when he lost out on a similar proposal...
Last week Congress set out to make most of the liberal punditry of the last four years obsolete. Since 1960, the legislative branch--more specifically, the House of Representatives--has been seen largely as an outmodeled obstruction to the business of government. But several actions taken within the last ten days indicate that the 89th Congress will be moving ahead of, rather than lagging behind, the liberal and progressive recommendations of the executive branch...
...President instructed his physicians to issue a report, which came in the form of a question-and-answer document, prompted, it was explained, by questions that had been put to the White House in recent months. In sum, the report allowed as how the President takes a bourbon and branch water before dinner, swims occasionally, gets seven or eight hours of sound sleep, sometimes works in bed in the morning, and no longer smokes. Among other disclosures...
Internal Revenue Commissioner, a job left vacant since Mortimer Caplin resigned in July, the President picked Sheldon S. Cohen, 37, who just a year ago left the Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter to become chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service. There Cohen streamlined the legal branch, pruned excess personnel, installed automatic data-processing and microfilm files for his 650 attorneys. He hammered the point home to his staff that the Government's aim in any tax litigation was not just to win the case but to set principles of law. Cohen hopes to build a friendly...
...intelligent officers for missile control crews, and to enrich their long hours of tedious, isolated duty. Several universities turned down the idea, but Ohio State, which since 1955 has operated the School of Systems and Logistics at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, agreed to open a branch campus at Ellsworth under a $500,000 contract with the Air Force Institute of Technology. Now rounding out its first year of full-scale operation, the school has been "phenomenally successful," says Major James B. Woodruff, liaison man between Hastings and the Institute. Many older students (average age: 30) plan...