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...would cost. Secretary Flemming's guesstimate: $1.2 billion annually, split fifty-fifty by federal and state governments. What would it cost by 1970? Flemming shrugged, said his staff was still calculating. "This is the worst kind of fiscal irresponsibility," cried Virginia Democrat Burr Harrison. "This Townsend Plan-Rube Goldberg scheme is more socialistic and more unsound than the Forand bill." Quipped another Democrat: "This plan calls for everything except prenatal care for persons over 65." Chairman Wilbur Mills, an Arkansas Democrat who has long supported Ike's crusades for a balanced budget, was boiling mad. So, privately, were...
...battle, the Administration won the second. Labor Secretary James Mitchell lunched with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s President George Meany and failed to convince him that the U.S. foreign policy was more important than the grievances of his seafarers. But after Meany's able legal counsel, Arthur Goldberg, discussed the situation for two days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called...
...tallest apartment houses ever built will start rising this summer in the heart of Chicago's downtown area, north of the Loop. Architect Bertrand Goldberg, 46, a onetime student of Mies van der Rohe. devotes the first 18 floors of his pair of circular towers to a spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space...
Architect Goldberg's most daring stroke was to raise all the 896 projected apartments well above city noise and dust, while providing garage space underneath for each family. His next best stroke: balconies for every apartment, overlooking the daytime and nighttime splendors of Chicago as if from a magic carpet. Rents, surprisingly enough, will start at a modest $115 a month...
Keeping the heat on management, Steelworkers General Counsel Arthur J. Goldberg last week sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Frederick H. Mueller, urging that the Government stockpile steel now coming from the mills as a hedge against resumption of the strike. "While I have not abandoned hope that a settlement will be reached before the 80-day injunction expires, nevertheless I must advise you in all candor that at the present writing no settlement is in prospect...