Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted tax cut during the Kennedy Administration. Chairman Mills has bluntly told the White House that he will do his best to block any congressional action on taxation this year, and that he rejects the elimination of the 7% investment credit in particular as being too little and too late...
...tough Sullivan Law, which remains the only state law requiring police permits for possession of handguns. During his presidency, the two major existing federal gun laws-the firearms acts of 1934 and 1938-were passed. In fact, a 1962 article in The American Riflleman took note of the late President's desire for tough gun controls, complained that his "knowledge of firearms was not extensive...
...Late last year, he vanished from sight, raising speculation that he was either ill or in seclusion with his problems. The world did not realize it, but the army was being prepared as the vehicle of the new revolution, and only in the last few months has that role come clear...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
Reformed Catholic. To succeed the late Father John Heuss, who died in March, the Trinity vestry last month named the Very Rev. John V. Butler, Dean of Manhattan's St. John the Divine Cathedral as their church's new rector. A self-styled "Catholic in the reformed tradition," Butler fits into Trinity's high-church pattern, has a reputation as a pastoral preacher who skillfully uses Biblical passages to illuminate modern themes. Butler would like to see some of Trinity's daughter chapels become selfsupporting, thus providing seed money for new projects in Harlem and other...