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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty, for example, as a "pitifully inadequate and misdirected" rearguard action that is bound to fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...sign that scarcer and costlier money-that classic tranquilizer for a souped-up economy-was finally starting to restrain spending. Another sign: the National Industrial Conference Board reported that the nation's 1,000 largest corporations, which account for 75% of business capital spending, are making plans to expand less rapidly than they did a year earlier...
...indefinitely in the small wooden house at 53 Church St.; the Population Center, now located in a completely renovated house on Bow St., certainly will grow, and, with it, probably the need for a new home; the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies may someday wish to expand to larger quarters or move closer to the center of academic activity. And then, the University may just decide to leave a large part of the Mem Hall triangle as open space...
...laws to combat crime syndicates, which Johnson called "corporations of corruption." One bill would expand the immunity from prosecution granted to underworld witnesses...
...road to Laredo has been lined with weird detours. After leaving Harvard, Leary tried to continue his experiments near Acapulco, Mexico, where he opened a sort of Hallucination Hilton in an old resort hotel. He offered to expand consciousnesses at the rate of $200 a month and $6 per expansion; the Mexican government expelled him after two months. He tried unsuccessfully to reopen in the Caribbean, finally established something called the Castalia Foundation on a 3,000-acre estate in Millbrook, N.Y., near Vassar and Bennett colleges. Along the way, he had become very much a religious mystic; the four...