Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase in federal taxes. Ronald Ziegler declared that "the President would not propose tax increases during his second term." That does not necessarily rule out some changes: tax reform could consist of a balanced package of increases and cuts, and White House Aide John Ehrlichman has put forth at least a semantic justification for VAT. If it led to local property-tax relief, said Ehrlichman, VAT would not be a tax increase but a "tax substitution...
...mere mention of Chicago brings forth visions of vote fraud, but evidence that would stand up in court has always been difficult to find. Even in 1960, when it was widely suspected that hanky-panky in Cook County cost Richard Nixon Illinois' electoral votes, 633 indictments resulted in zero convictions. Last week the Chicago Tribune, after months of diligent digging, published charges of massive vote manipulation in the state primary last March by Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic organization. This time the evidence seemed ironclad...
Middle guard Spencer Dreischarf has graduated, but according to Restic Sandy Tennant and Fred Smith will be more flexible than Dreischarf at playing both inside linebacker and middle guard, as Harvard switches back and forth from five-and-four-man fronts. Veteran Mark Ferguson returns to inside linebacker with more defensive playing time than anyone except Barger while Jim Westra and Bob Kristoff will provide some linebacking depth...
...really good books are rarely written while their authors are under indictment, and really coherent books are seldom compiled while their editors are being systematically dragged back and forth across the continent to plead, testify or be tried. Papers on the War, which Ellsberg has thrown together and Simon and Schuster marketed as a book, has any number of admirable qualities but coherence is not one of them...
...Jencks is not optimistic about the possibility for reform of radical changes. The educational institutions of America have too firm a grasp on the peoples' minds, and the political climate in the country is not ripe for dramatic change. Nevertheless, Jencks sets forth the conditions he feel are necessary for the radical transformation...