Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malarkey. A bland, stocky native of Kensett (pop. 905), Democrat Mills, 58, maintains that the tax bill is not languishing in his committee because of his personal opposition. "The Administration," he told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil last week, "can have a vote any time. The fact is that they don't have the votes to pass the bill in the House. If I wanted to, I couldn't pass it." Congressional liaison men from the White House and legislative leaders of both parties agree that the House overwhelmingly opposes the tax bill. Republican Leader Jerry Ford believes that...
Schultze sought to show that the budget of $186.1 billion proposed for the fiscal year beginning July 1 (see box) was as tight as Lyndon Johnson claimed; that the $10.4 billion increase over this year results from military needs and extra expenditures required by law. It was here that Democrat Mills, with the full support of Ranking Republican John Byrnes, made his stand...
...energies on medical problems. As a member and since 1955 chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, he helped forge the nation's public health programs, most notably through the Hill-Burton Act, which has provided federal funds for 8,000 hospitals and health clinics. Last week Democrat Hill, 73, announced that he would retire when his current term ends in January 1969. Former Lieutenant Governor James Allen has already announced for the old New Dealer's seat...
...Eugene McCarthy, re-examining his image after seven weeks of campaigning for the presidency as a peace candidate, concluded that he came across more as a poet than an electable politician. Accordingly, on a swing through California last week, the Minnesota Democrat broke away from his somewhat aseptic form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could...
...gallon rise in gasoline taxes, a 100-a-fifth increase in liquor levies, a rise of up to 50% in corporation and utilities taxes, and at least five other significant levies. Together, the new taxes must raise $494 million above last year's revenues. Said Democrat Anthony Travia...