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...stark fact remains that Negroes are dying for what the President calls "freedom" and "democracy" in Vietnam, while their relatives are treated as second-class citizens back in the states. Dr. King justly feels that this incongruity, as well as the damper the war has placed on anti-poverty measures, should be impressed on Negroes' minds...
Only six months ago, the U.S. economy was heating rapidly and Lyndon Johnson decided to cool it. His damper was a dose of New Economics: he asked Congress for a temporary suspension of the 7% investment-tax credit on plant and equipment spending. The move helped chill the economy so much that last week the President requested Congress to reinstate the credit nine months ahead of schedule...
...announcement was sudden, it was not exactly surprising. Hertz constantly needs vast amounts of money to purchase new vehicles and open new locations, particularly in foreign nations, where the idea of car rentals has caught on fast. The tight money market has put a damper on the company, forced it, in Greenebaum's words, to "pull back on some experimental work we've been doing in developing new markets." One pullback, for the time being: a market test in which Hertz had been making extra sports cars available to see how eagerly drivers with more funds and free...
...demonstrate its pique over the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, the Kremlin has put a damper lately on portions of the U.S.-Russian cultural-exchange program. The American Ballet Theater arrived in Moscow last June to an officially cool reception. After the bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil depots, the Russians stood the Americans up at a scheduled Soviet-American track meet in Los Angeles; when U.S. swimmers came to Moscow, Pravda reported the meet without mentioning them. Last month American Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fa-tha") Hines's sextet, on an official tour of Russia, found its bookings...
When he returned to his post, the Japanese press, especially the more socialist papers, applauded his "dissension from U.S. policy in Vietnam." Reischauer was quick to put a damper on this kind of talk, and attacked the press as giving a lopsided picture of the situation in Vietnam. The final rebuff came when Reischauer reportedly reiterated his support of Washington's foreign policy in Vietnam...