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...York, Oregon and Tennessee, were willing to come out publicly for Kennedy. The initial reaction among congressional Democrats, even those sympathetic to Kennedy personally and on the major issues, was one of alarm rather than support. "He'll ruin the party!" was the reflex comment of several Capitol Hill Democrats. Most congressional Democrats and party officials in the states know that they face a tough campaign already and that a fight at the top can only make their own problems more serious...
...return, L.BJ. wants higher taxes. The Administration, since summer, has asked for a 10% surtax on incomes in order to ease inflation. To convince Congress that the surtax is urgent, Fowler and Martin spent much of last week on Capitol Hill. Fowler described the surtax as a "war tax," said that the Administration was even willing to raise taxes back to their levels before the 1964 reduction. The move would real ize $22 billion, rather than a previously estimated $10 billion...
Nationally, the picture is less clear. Attempts to organize local Rockefeller groups in a dozen or more states continued last week, but there was little overt activity of significance. His supporters in Congress were considering circulating a petition among Capitol Hill Republicans urging him to become an official candidate. However, there was difficulty in lining up a group broad and deep enough to make such a call meaningful. To have a petition come only from the party's liberal wing and signed principally by Easterners might hurt Rockefeller more than help him. What he needs is a summons from...
...presidential message galloped up Capitol Hill at a time when Indians, for all their poverty, may be in a stronger position than they were in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The supposedly vanishing Americans now number 600,000, more than twice the estimated U.S. Indian population at the time of Custer's last stand...
Sights & Sounds. The tape field is already crowded and confusing, and the technology-for cartridges as well as cassettes-is progressing rapidly and unpredictably. Some segments of the U.S. record industry, led by Columbia, Capitol and especially RCA Victor, are still betting heavily on cartridges, partly because they fear that the cassettes' potential as a home recording device would tend to undercut disk sales. On the other hand, many industry sources privately agree with the prediction of Rein Narma, consumer-products manager for Ampex, which markets all three types of tape. "We believe very strongly," says Narma, "that...