Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECEPTIVE atmosphere pervades Washington whenever one Administration gives way to another. Power seems to ebb steadily until the incumbents appear to be little more than caretakers. Yet, until Jan. 20, Johnson and his lieutenants retain considerable authority. By exercising it, the Democrats can create commitments-and problems -that will affect Richard Nixon for months or perhaps years to come...
...spiral will slow. The tax increase is finally beginning to take effect: the after-tax income of the average American, which rose at an annual rate of $36 in this year's first quarter, increased $20 in the second quarter and only $4 in the third quarter. On Jan. 1, the taxpayer will be hit with an increase in Social Security taxes; the maximum payment, for people earning $7,800 a year or more, will go up from $290 to $374. On April 15, millions of Americans will have to pay out a lot more to cover...
...G.O.P. readied itself for Jan. 20, Democratic leaders still eyed one another warily and scanned the distant horizon. There was an appearance of cohesion: Hubert Humphrey had led the Democrats to a defeat but not to a debacle. Most encouraging was that in Senator Edward Kennedy the party saw a shining champion who had not been bloodied at all in the conflict-one, moreover, who offered the hope of future victory...
...trapped enemy unit below Danang and one infantryman in a patrol that was ambushed 40 miles north of Saigon. One of the 31, impossible to single out, became the 30,000th American to be killed in action in Viet Nam since the grisly log was begun on Jan. 1, 1961. Almost half of the total (14,400) died this year, many in the three major offensives launched by the Communists since the Tet holiday on Jan...
...more prominence under the Russians than they did under an independent Dubcek, and Premier Oldfich Cernik who quickly became adept at compromising with Moscow. There were rumors that Dubcek may soon be given a purely honorific job. That could happen after the federal-socialist state comes into being on Jan. 1, with separate Czech and Slovak governments under an umbrella government in Prague. At that time, the Russians may seek to impose several important personnel changes...