Word: gardners
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...Johnson unveiled a program. Said he: "I have directed a special task force within my Administration to recommend a broad and long-range plan of worldwide educational endeavor." The group will be headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, will include Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner. Though Johnson gave few details, he envisioned stepped-up exchanges of students and teachers and an increased "flow of books and ideas and art, of works of science and imagination." He delicately refrained from quoting the price of his latest war. One guess is that it will cost $50 million...
...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. An immensely readable biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, one of Boston's most colorful Victorian lady eccentrics. Armed with money, an unfettered imagination and a whim of iron, she kept Boston's newspapers in copy with her antics for half a century - and along the way assembled a collection of great art now housed in the Gardner Museum...
...committee, headed by Gardner Ackley, who is also Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, predicted that the nation's G.N.P. will rise from the 1964 level of $629 billion to $870 billion by 1970. Thus, at current tax rates the government will have an extra $50 billion in annual revenue by 1970, even if military spending remains constant. This is the committee's "conservative" estimate. These funds, it recommended, should be pumped back into the economy to prevent recession. Hence the "better life...
...such as combatting the drought in the Northeastern U.S. or reducing the federal debt. Last week President Johnson dimmed their hopes with a report by a special study team that included Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Director of the Budget Charles Schultze and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Gardner Ackley; it pointed out that the exact amount of the new revenues would vary with the demand for coins, thus could not be depended upon to meet the needs of any single program. That said, the committee promised to report back on Dec. 1 with concrete recommendations...
This sturdy performance was backed both by the possibility of more defense spending for Viet Nam and by a growing confidence that the 55-month-old economic expansion will continue. Last week Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, forecast that the economy will continue expanding through 1966 and said that the top of the current advance is not yet in sight. The Government expects total output of goods and services to rise to $670 billion in 1965 up 6.6% from 1964. U.S. industry seems to share the optimism: the Commerce Department boosted its estimate...