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...agencies that will be especially hard-hit by Nixon's bill is the Model Cities Administration, which since its initiation four years ago has led the New England region in Federal Model Cities grants...
...social betterment. Today the Crimson supports the New Deal, foreshadowed by the Wilsonian program and so similar in its aims and accomplishments. The greatest good for the greatest number, though it may require the abandonment of American "rugged individualism", though some traditions are swept away and some groups hard-hit, though the activities and the power of the people's government are extended, is our goal. So long as the New Deal is the best way to achieve this goal, the Crimson will support...
...scarce that it has to be hauled in by oil trucks. Thousands of unemployed have thronged into the cities in search of work. Malnutrition is pervasive. To assay some of the effects of the drought, TIME'S New Delhi Bureau Chief William Stewart last week visited the hard-hit state of Maharashtra and its capital, Bombay, and filed this report...
...relief voted by Congress, take-home pay will be reduced in many instances. The total federal tax bite will indeed be less than last year, but the rates of tax withholding have been changed, with the result that people in the upper-middle and higher brackets will be hard-hit. For example, the amount withheld from the wages of a married worker with two children who earns $250 a week will remain virtually unchanged at $30.50. But for an employee earning $400 a week, the withholding will rise from $60.90 to $67.10, and a $500-a-week earner will...
...Party that Ottawa slap a retaliatory export tax on natural gas, oil and minerals needed in the U.S., or restrict dividend payments to U.S. parent companies. He has settled on a milder response: a bill, passed by Parliament two weeks ago, setting up an $80 million kitty to aid hard-hit firms in maintaining their employment rolls. The danger is that if Canadian companies use that money to cut their export prices, Washington must by law retaliate with countervailing duties-which in turn would further exacerbate relations between the two countries...