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Phantom Cut. Few people are as optimistic as Heller about the benefits of a tax cut. There are those who argue that a level of 5% unemployed has become a structural feature of the U.S. economy. Not even large Government retraining programs to teach new skills will dent the problem, they insist, because nearly half of the jobless are so inadequately schooled that they lack the basic education necessary to build a retraining program around. The world's wealthiest nation has found no way to cope with the fact that some of its citizens have no useful place...
...rules committee consists of Presi- dent Bunting; Mary H. Winslow, dean of residence; Lois M. Reiser '64, president of RGA; Gall E. Thain '64, president of the Board of Hall; three representatives from RGA, and representatives from each of the three houses. The Masters of the houses are ex-officio members
During those years, Lyndon loved to insist that he did not want to be Presi dent of the U.S. Once, while he was Senate majority leader, he and Ike were conversing in the President's office...
Considerable & Unabashed. Nothing, it seemed, could dent his ego. After he became editor of London's Saturday Review, he was convinced that it was only his lack of height (he was only 5 ft. 5 in.) that barred him from Parliament. Lady Asquith noted in her Autobiography that Harris monopolized every conversation, but Harris was unabashed. "The fact that the Prime Minister and his wife were asked to meet me," he writes, "shows that I had a very considerable position in London...
...Marche, the city's largest department store, by organizing a buyers' boycott and a freedom march on the store, then negotiating with the management. In Boston, one local baking company agreed to hire more Negroes after ministers backed a "selected patronage" campaign from their pulpits, helped dent the company's bread sales...