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...then have the difficult job of selling them on Capitol Hill. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration...
Inevitably, the outcome of the 1968 elections put the political futures of all the men involved into new perspectives and new lights-some brighter, some dimmer. Besides the Nixon-Agnew victory, what may prove to be a major factor in many careers is the surprisingly good showing of Hubert Humphrey...
...risks, Kennedy's decision makes sense in purely personal terms. His chances in '68 may be dim, but what with the strong possibility of a Republican President next year, '72 looks even dimmer. The man who beats Johnson--call him President Nixon--would likely remain in office for eight years, sustained by a period of post-war reaction and by the dictates of political fashion. By '76 Kennedy could be nearly as anachronistic as Harold Stassen in the current campaign...
...Much Optimism? There are of course businessmen and economists who take a dimmer view. "I don't see the consumer as any more confident," insists Retailer Ralph Lazarus, president of Federated Stores. "His real income is not rising. He's worried about layoffs, prices, taxes, high interest rates and the course of the war." Federal Reserve Board Governor Dewey Daane says bluntly: "The current optimism has gone...
...more Schmidt calculated, the more problems he raised. Even a very bright galaxy consisting of billions of stars would be much dimmer at this distance, but starlike 3C 273 can be seen easily with a 6-in. telescope. Clearly, more study was needed...