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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even savage tribes, and in fact the lower animals, have strict sex regulations. This is necessary, as human experience has demonstrated. Now we have partially educated smart alecks who seem to feel that they have discovered sex. Their cry for emancipation from what they term prudery shows their stupidity and lack of anthropological perspective. We don't need more license; we need more common sense, restraint and decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...revenues. The beneficiaries of this windfall would be wage earners, who now pay a higher percentage of taxes than most millionaires. Mills said that the extra funds would probably be used to cover an increase in the standard deduction of 10% of gross adjusted income claimed primarily by lower and middle-income taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Hostage for Tax Reform | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...approach to achieving equality in income has been not to knock down high salaries, except for the very highest, but to distribute the gains due to economic growth amongst the lower-paid groups of workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sam Bowles Takes a Look at Cuba | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

...chief legal officer, Attorney General John N. Mitchell pointedly announced that the incidence of wiretapping by federal law enforcement agencies had gone down, not up, during the first six months of Republican rule. Mitchell refused to disclose any figures, but he indicated that the number was far lower than most people might think. "Any citizen of this United States who is not involved in some illegal activity," he added, "has nothing to fear whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government: The New Line on Wiretapping | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...their securities in competition with the big brokerage houses, and some are likely to fold for lack of capital. The smaller firms, which have relatively high overhead, also stand to be hurt by volume discounts for the institutional buyers. In general, the securities industry seems to be moving toward lower commissions for the institutions and higher commissions for small, individual traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Opening Up the Club | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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