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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never-Miss. In the Senate, whose members must risk the winds of public opinion only once every six years, sentiment is more favorable to the tax bill. Last week three Senators of markedly different persuasions-Democrat Robert Kennedy and Republicans Jacob Javits of New York and John Williams of Delaware-spoke in favor of a tax increase, coupled with judicious spending cuts. Mills could not care less. Under the Constitution, it is the House of Representatives that is empowered to originate revenue measures, and it is from the House that Mills derives his considerable influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wilbur the Willful | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...other hand, "the increasing demands for 'results' from Washington" has unbalanced the already "paltry" federal spending in favor of action programs, when research is the most pressing current need...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Urban Crisis Is Jolting Ed School, Dean Reports | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...Volunteers express their beliefs in domestic media about contemporary issues? Yes, witness Vietnam, Will the Peace Corps become a homogeneous group? Only if the heterogeneous abdicate in favor of the puritan vacuum of abstention...

Author: By Russell Schwartz, | Title: The Peace Corps Replies: A Project Director Responds to Criticism | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...study would be made using "existing data and techniques"--assumption which the City feels prejudge the case in favor of the highway...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Bridwell, City Council Discuss the Inner Belt | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

...signed by over 400 students, according to Mark Dyen '70 who helped collect the signatures, calls on President Pusey to ban the visits of Dow and the Institute for Defense Analyses. This petition, Dyen said, was intended to "strengthen the hand" of those on the Council who are in favor of recommending the ban. Dow is scheduled to recruit on February 23, under the auspices of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans. The October Dow visit was sponsored by the Chemistry Department...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Council to Tackle Dow Recruitment, Hershey's Memo | 2/6/1968 | See Source »

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