Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST week, after months of delay, the U.S. Government began to act on that warning from William C. Foster, head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Johnson Administration. For the first time, President Nixon's National Security Council devoted a full session to defining the negotiating positions that the U.S. will take when it discusses possible limits on nuclear weapons with the Soviet Union. A second Security Council meeting is scheduled for this week. The President also announced that, if the Soviets agree on time and place, SALT-the long-awaited strategic arms limitation talks-will...
Finny Barrier. Scientists now foresee exciting possibilities in the control of fish by sonic commands. They might, for example, be used to lure dangerous fish away from swimming areas or from divers in the sea. There are even potential military applications. By broadcasting intermittently at a popular shark frequency, a sound projector could provide a moored ship with an effective finny barrier against enemy frogmen...
...soaring prices they must pay for both the necessities and the luxuries of life. President Nixon says that an attack on inflation is his number one domestic priority. His economists, led by Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers, are guiding a delicate effort to control inflation gradually and avoid bringing on the recession that Nixon deeply fears...
Chairman William McChesney Martin of the Federal Reserve Board warned that without the surtax "we cannot succeed" in slowly controlling today's "critically serious" inflation. Sitting at his side, Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy* declared: "The problem is much more difficult than I realized. We can't let this escalate into runaway inflation, and we're very close to that now." If Congress allows the tax to expire, he added, the economy could race far enough out of control to create "the possibility of a serious recession." To prevent that, Secretary Kennedy warned that the Government would...
...Halberstam, Kennedy was a man caught between principle and practicality, between the new politics and the old, racked by indecision and buffeted by forces and events beyond prophecy or control. "He was playing Hamlet," writes Halberstam, "thinking about the race constantly, wanting to make it, being led there by his emotions again and again, only to be brought back from the brink by the cold words of his closet advisors...