Word: johnson
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...Classics defeated the Harvard freshmen for the first time in their history to provide another of this year's highlights. Gordon Johnson and Fritz Mayer led the Classics to the 86-55 runaway victory at the IAB last month...
...more unusual figures on the waterfront. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he was named by the Justice Department in 1969 as an alleged captain in the Gambino crime family. Nonetheless, he has remained respectable enough to lecture on labor at Harvard and attend a White House conference in the Johnson...
...drawing up her policy in that respect, think purely in American terms and endeavor to serve the interests of the American people. I do hope American readers will take no offense at this, for the United States has often allowed her policies to be determined by Israel, especially in Johnson's day. We were then told that the United States could not do anything and that it was up to us to seek an understanding, if we wanted, with Israel. As we knew Israel's line of thinking and her arrogance only too well, we realized that such...
...whose value was fixed in gold (at $35 per oz., a price that seems ridiculous today). That system might not have lasted in any case; even in the early 1960s there were worries about American balance of payments deficits and an outflow of gold from the U.S. But Lyndon Johnson put an intolerable strain on the system by fighting a war in Viet Nam without raising taxes early on or cutting domestic spending to pay for it. That policy spurred inflation at home, sucked in imports from abroad, and sent dollars pouring overseas by the billions. Under the rules that...
...sorely in need of revision. In fact, the Code has never been fully systematized; it was last indexed in 1909. There are still laws on the books that make it a crime to interfere with government carrier pigeons or to seduce a woman aboard a passenger ship. President Johnson authorized the Brown Commission in 1966 to update the code, which was clearly out of step with modern society and legal thought. After 12 years and a long, strange trip, the House now has before it Senate Bill 1437, an enormous 700 page effort to clean up the system. The bill...