Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both reactions are a portent of the growing mood of neo-isolationism in the nation. Thus far, the feeling has been most clearly evident on Capitol Hill, where an influential coterie of Senators led by Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen and Majority Whip Russell Long are pressing for the tightest protection of U.S. goods since the bad old days of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff.* If the protectionist Senators-dubbed "the coalition of retreat" by Hubert Humphrey-were to succeed, they would impose strict quotas on more than 75% of dutiable U.S. imports...
...Action Army." Organizing the march on the tactical level was a manic task. Originally it was planned for Capitol Hill, but the Mob ended by adopting Rubin's suggestion that the Pentagon would be a more inviting and symbolic target. As rallyers offered their services, the committee divided them into 22 contingents, ranging from notables (Spock, Mailer, Poet Robert Lowell) to a Vietnamese contingent. A hippie outfit calling itself Wagon Wheels East purportedly set out from California replete with Shoshone Indians, trail scouts and medicine men ("compliments of Chief Rolling Thunder"), plus "junk cars, stolen buses, motorcycles, rock bands...
Murky Tableau. Until that way is found, Capitol Hill will have to make do with the present system, which at least provides a check when one house gets too mischievous. The Senate is expected to block or greatly modify the Whitten and Bow amendments, following the lead of its Appropriations Committee. Last week the committee stripped the amendments from the resolution to which they had been added and approved for floor action a simple measure that allows financing of agencies whose appropriations have not yet been passed. There will doubtless be continued wrangling over federal spending and Johnson...
...annual scramble for appropriations on Capitol Hill, nothing has pleased Congress more than the Peace Corps' stubborn refusal to spend every last cent of its budget. Honoring the idealism of 11,902 volunteer workers in 52 countries, it has shunned frills and pared costs, saving taxpayers roughly $45 million over four years. Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, 47, a feisty, compact (5 ft. 8 in.) redhead, was commended by Vice President Humphrey for slashing $495 off the upkeep of each corpsman last year...
Smaller Markets. The size of those U.S. exports and the effect of a cutoff made up the ammunition hurled at the Senate last week by a platoon of Cabinet members sent up the Hill by President Johnson. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman pointed out that one acre of every four of U.S. farmland grows food for export, and exports provide work for one out of every eight U.S. farmers. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall argued that oil import quotas should be less rigid in order to give the Government flexibility in maintaining the national security. Rusk cited some U.S. annual exports...