Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surtax and thus erase the deflationary surplus Johnson hopes to create. Johnson asked an overall 13% increase in social security benefits; in the campaign, Nixon proposed to tie social security payments to a cost-of-living index so that benefits would rise and fall with consumer costs. Given his further campaign commitments to urban aid and new weapons systems, Nixon probably cannot reduce notably the total amount of spending that Johnson recommended...
...largely absorbed by the specter of economic instability, war, cold war and the nuclear arms race. At the same time, the rural American was becoming the urban American. The Negro became even more restive for social and economic equity. And the great engine of American success, industry, was practically given carte blanche to pollute the air and the water, with no implicit social responsibility to the cities it had helped to build...
Despite the attention given to the urban crisis, the cities continue to deteriorate. So far, one of the least used resources, particularly in the slums, has been private industry. The potential in private capital is enormous, and both businessmen and bureaucrats must work to exploit it. Taking advantage of low-interest loans from the Federal Housing Administration, the Boston Gas Co., for example, provided additional capital for the rehabilitation of 3,000 apartments in the Roxbury ghetto. The result was not only better housing for several thousand people, but also the acquisition...
...good deal is. Not as much as Americans sometimes suppose is going into absurd projects-though too much is. Money is being spent on programs that, by comparison with priority needs, are secondary or of relatively minor importance. Someone is always hurt when a program is cut, but given the need, both the President and Congress could buck the political pressures to trim them this year...
...Given these two successful and fruitful approaches to white blues-playing, one is at a loss to understand where the blues style of Pacific Gas & Electric (another West Coast group at the Festival), with its amorphous bag of drum solos, wanton guitar effects and indifferent singing, fits in. I suspect it doesn't and I fear again that this is a malady common to too many American groups, born of half-assimilated influences from jazz and Cream...