Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown said that a much closer relationship between the national and state governments is needed. "There is a limit to what even a prosperous and growing state like California can undertake by itself." The national government, Brown said, must undertake programs to alleviate national problems--poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination--which no state has the resources to solve. "California could wipe out its personal income tax altogether," he said, "and it would have less than one-third of the impact of a small cut in federal taxes...
COLETTE BANGERT-Krasner, 1061 Madison Ave. at 80th. Watercolors employing the touch of the pointillists and the spectrum of the impressionists limit themselves to the exploration of hidden lights. A warm incandescence radiates from flecks of contrasting opaque pigment veneered over squiggles like Hebrew calligraphy. First New York showing. Through...
...York City, where the worst offenses take place, has commissioned the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute to prepare a new building code, which should give some relief. Says New York City Buildings Commissioner Harold Birns: "The authors of the present [1937] code had no concept of the cacophony produced without limit by a disharmonic symphony of radio, television and hi-fi sets, which now thoroughly inundates our apartment houses...
...legislation, Johnson summoned Republican Floor Leader Everett Dirksen, a key member of the committee, to the White House for a poached egg breakfast. "Why don't you go on back up there and get that Finance Committee moving?" demanded the President. "Let's get a ten-minute limit on speeches and debate put on that committee." Replied Dirksen to the man who first achieved national fame as a skilled Senate lead er: "Lyndon, you know that place well enough to know you can't do that. Not even you ever shut a Senator off on the floor...
...rules limit a family to a single gravesite. The law also provides, however, that the Secretary of the Army, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, may authorize larger sites. Accordingly, the Pentagon had offered to set aside for the Kennedy family a total of 3.2 acres. At week's end, however, Jackie asked that those plans be canceled, requested only enough space for eligible Kennedy family members, plus a suitable monument for the dead President...