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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Pusey had previously said he would not act on Afro's four requests--a chair for a black professor, more courses relevant to blacks, more lower level black faculty members, and more black students. Afro called yesterday's meeting in response to Pusey's statement...
...first primary is May 7, in Indiana, a conservative state whose rural lower half is as southern as Mississippi. Roger D. Branigin, the most popular governor in the state's history, controls the amazingly powerful party organization. The leading paper in the state, the Indianapolis Star, buries news of Kennedy and McCarthy deep in stories headlining Branigin's latest support from county leaders. Branigin entered the primary as a stand-in for Johnson, and polls showed him leading Kennedy and McCarthy. After Johnson's withdrawal, he decided to stay in the contest, probably to hold his state for Humphrey...
...stock prices have meandered near the bottom of their winter trough, Wall Street has for weeks yearned for a reason to cheer. Without the war, most investors see a resumption of unstrained economic growth, with lower taxes and interest rates, less wage and price inflation, a smaller federal deficit and diminishing pressure from the balance of payments deficit...
...prime target for the inevitable retaliation would be U.S. agriculture, by far the nation's largest exporter. Many other industries now contributing to U.S. export earnings would also be hard hit, among them chemicals, electronic equipment and industrial machinery. The consequence, Administration leaders predict, would be higher prices, lower profits and fewer jobs at home, as well as shrinking markets for U.S. goods abroad. "To incite trade war would be a fool's game," says Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, "since the U.S. would be bound to end up as a loser...
...income we had counted on that's gone, and there isn't a goddam thing we can do about it. We don't have any inventory to sell, we don't have a product that we can mark down in price and move at the lower figure. So in this business, it's become a matter of keeping as lean...