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...During the past two decades, television has helped reduce attendance at local movie theaters by an estimated 60%, forcing one-fourth of them out of business. Yet, for the past half-year, the cinema-house owners have acted as if their major mission in life were to rescue TV-at least in its present form -from extinction. Moviegoers find SAVE FREE TV inscribed on marquees and are asked to sign petitions to Congress on behalf of the old archenemy. Between pictures, a message flashes onscreen warning about "the monster" out to "charge you for the very TV programs...
What gave Nixon his confidence was the decision by the House Ways and Means Committee to report out the bill exactly as he had requested-extending the surtax at its present 10% rate for six months and continuing it for another half-year at 5%. The bill also eliminates the 7% tax credit for business investment. The committee vote of 16 to 9 was the result of prodding by Chairman Wilbur Mills, a Democrat, some nudging by John Byrnes, the ranking Republican, and a last-minute thrust by the President himself. Nixon sent Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and Paul McCracken...
...Ethics: Rights an Responsibilities." The Committee counts among its 15 members David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Martin Duberman, Talcott Parsons, Carl Kaysen, Neil Rudenstine, and two college presidents. They commissioned the articles, sent out invitations to the authors, and selected the critics and panelists for the conference (set over a half-year later). The conference--numbering 25 to 30 people--often takes place at the House of the Academy in Brookline. More recently, these conferences have been held abroad at Paris and Bellagio. Overseas sites have attracted a number of foreign scholars to Daedalus and the Academy...
...thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will soon test a moon booster with a 10,000,000-lb. thrust capacity. With the first manned Apollo orbit scheduled for August and a Saturn 5-powered orbital mission tentatively set for November, NASA estimates that the U.S. still has a half-year lead...
...materialist Utopia with an art-craft peasantry, and Morris himself dancing on the greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled in the Devonshire copper mine from which Morris derived his fortune...