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...month, three months longer than the old record. There were inflationary signs, a big balance-of-payments deficit, pressure on the dollar after Britain's devaluation of the pound. Economists and politicians began talking about "profitless prosperity." When Johnson asked belatedly for a 10% surcharge on income taxes to damp down the supercharged economy, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted on an equivalent cut in federal spending that the President was unwilling to make...
...Psychedelic Supermarket, a damp basement garage just off Kenmore Square. No more than a dozen people sit at tables near the stage -- mostly teeny bopper couples with happy-colored beads and sad faces. Two workmen in cover-alls are folding up unused tables and chairs and dragging them past the three...
Harvard stole some of Penn's hustle in a third-quarter comeback bid, but the Crimson's short passes were often too short on the damp field and the Quakers' sthrong three-fullback defense, led by senior Steve Mazzetti, clogged the scoring area...
...life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain to damp the fires, but it never came...
...Russians, having helped egg Nasser on by publicly condemning the Israelis, may now be having second thoughts. In a note to Lyndon Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is reported to have urged backstage action by the superpowers to damp down the situation...