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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wastebasket Facts. The column will stay pretty much the same, though it will be "less personal"-Anderson's respectful way of saying that he won't play favorites. Pearson, the charmer, was susceptible to social graces in others. But Anderson, a nondrinking, nonsmoking family man (nine children), avoids the Washington social whirl. If anything, the column can be expected to get tougher...
...could also get more accurate. Though aggressive reporting is the "Merry-Go-Round" hallmark, the column is only slightly less well known for its sacrifice of fact to fancy when the crusading spirit is upon it. As recently as seven weeks ago, Pearson was caught with his facts in the wastebasket when he charged that President Nixon had tried to dictate a starring role for himself in the Apollo moon-flight ceremonies. Anderson's reconstruction of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph...
...moves in quite the opposite direction, and those who stand to lose by it-among them Wall Street corporations, the oil industry, and universities and hospitals-have been deluging Washington with complaints. Last week, as the Senate Finance Committee began considering the measure, the Nixon Administration presented its own, less stringent tax recommendations, informing Congress that some of the House reforms and tax reductions go too far, too fast...
...make federal spending match federal income, it was hardly surprising that Treasury Secretary David Kennedy asked the Senate to cut in half the $2.4-billion-a-year revenue loss foreseen in the House measure. Despite the rebellious mood of the nation's taxpayers, Secretary Kennedy recommended somewhat less relief for low-and middle-income individuals and families. In the most unexpected move of all, he asked that corporate income tax rates be reduced by 2 percentage points rather than increased or held at the current 52.8%. Nor would Kennedy move nearly so far as the House did in closing...
...less trust attended the closings in Lovelady, a sleepy town in the piney woods of East Texas, and Big Lake, though there the faith was on the other side. The State National Bank of Lovelady (pop. 644) used to advertise that "we love people, particularly people to whom money is a mystery." President Jim Grady Waller lived up to his ads. "If a man needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still...