Word: inflationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whizzing through New England next day, the President touched on every issue that promises to figure heavily in the fall elections except inflation. At the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, where he picked up a Doctor of Civil Laws degree (his 32nd honorary degree), it was civil rights. Before...
Barrage of Barbs. The colonel is a charming and good-humored woman who insists that the campaign poses two major issues for Rhode Islanders: "What's happening to their sons and what's happening to their dollars." She feels that the U.S. should put more effort into winning...
Some of the things visitors like-or dislike-surprise their hosts. Being able to take a grocery bag of food up to a hotel room is an unaccustomed freedom, and so is walking on park lawns. A general from inflation-plagued Brazil was pleased that "during the five weeks I...
Still, since the Johnson Administration is clearly unwilling to fight inflation either by cutting Government spending or by raising taxes in an election year, the prospects are that money will get still tighter. Says M.I.T. Economist Paul Samuelson, one of John F. Kennedy's chief counselors: "Since we'...
The Republican leader in the House, Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, does not offer smiling generalities. Nor does he call heavy federal spending socialistic, or term effective civil rights legislation "unconstitutional" as Goldwater has done. Ford is a pragmatic sniper; he votes against open housing legislation because it's "divisive...