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...goal for 1966, and we mean to reach it." However, he hedged his confident earlier forecasts that the target would actually be met, calling both the price of the war and the nation's normally large trade surplus "imponderables" that could upset the calculations. Commerce Secretary John Connor sounded even gloomier. "The balance-of-payments problem is going to be with us in one form or another as far as the trained eye can see into the future," he said...
...rose faster than exports, partly because of dock strikes and partly in response to the demand for goods from free-spending consumers and businessmen. Result: the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-shrank from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion last year. The trend, said Connor, remains a "very serious" problem. On top of that, Viet Nam escalation may pull $700 million of gold and dollars out of the U.S. this year as against $250 million...
...Stimpson and Patricia O'Connor, associate dean of Admissions, made a nation-wide tour this fall, for the first time, telling guidance counselors about "the problems of admission to Radcliffe and the problems of numbers." They have stressed the stiffness of admission requirements--"what it takes to get in and be successful...
Inflation, as a topic if not a reality, was on just about everyone's mind and tongue last week. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler saw "disturbing signs," while Commerce Secretary John Connor and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz had words of reassurance. Lyndon Johnson asked his top economic advisers to come to the Texas ranch soon to talk about the economy, but his aides insisted that he was not really worried...
...book makes the President's reactions appear to be disorganized, often emotional, provoked by crises. Only when the crowds massed in the streets of Birmingham and Bull Connor beat them back did Kennedy begin to think of a strong civil rights bill, according to Sorensen. He makes Kennedy's speech on the enrollment of two Negroes at the University of Alabama appear the most important civil rights development of the administration, and he never recognizes those critics of the 1964 civil rights act who felt that it didn't go far enough. Polls showed that Kennedy was losing votes over...