Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Facing more resistance, however, is the Administration's request to extend for another year some $530 million in excise taxes that were first levied at the beginning of World War II. Led by Wisconsin's John Byrnes, the Republican members of Ways and Means sought to reduce the 10% levy on jewelry, furs, perfume, cosmetics, watches, luggage and other leather goods to 5% by July 1 and to nothing the following year. With one exception, the committee's Democrats lined up against Byrnes's proposal to defeat it by a party-line vote...
...bill would extend the life of the Civil Rights Commission until February 1968. Both the House bill and Dirksen amendments would provide new protection for persons appearing before the commission, and would require that commission proceedings in executive session could be made public only by vote of the commission...
Many of Dirksen's amendments apply to this section. He would extend coverage to federal employment and union hiring halls and exempt Indian reservations and cases involving national security. He would eliminate the commission's right to file suits. Instead, it would investigate and could recommend that the Attorney General intervene in suits...
When George Marshall made the historic offer in 1947 to extend massive U.S. aid to help rebuild the shattered economies of friend and foe alike, the prostrate Soviet-occupied states of Eastern Europe responded with enthusiasm. But before their delegations could pack their scuffed suitcases and head West, Moscow thundered its veto of Commu nist participation in the Marshall Plan. Last week, in Conference Room 1105A of the State Department, a Rumanian delegation was finally able to accept, if not the 17-year-old offer, at least a latterday, more commercial version...
...both of these places exciting experiments in forms of instruction are taking place, but the proper relation of work in the visual and dramatic arts to the regular curriculum of the College is still only vaguely seen. We would hope that some day every undergraduate would be able to extend his experience in college from the verbal to the non-verbal arts, from appreciating to creating, in ways that maintain something of the discipline of his efforts within the departments....5JOHN H. FINLEY...