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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place, people are entitled to be heard when taxes are to be increased. I don't know any place in the White House where the President could have a hearing room big enough to hear those who would want to discuss increases in taxes. But the main thing in my mind is that I just don't feel that taxes can be raised and lowered, season by season, or that they should be, to accomplish those short-run objectives. I have spoken many times on this idea of using the tax law to bring about short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wilbur Mills on Taxes and Spending | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Although conferral of the seal is supposed to be based on objective testing of a product, Rosenthal's investigation found the award to be as much an advertising gimmick as a guarantee to consumers. The legislator contends that the main criterion for granting the seal is whether a manufacturer agrees to place his advertising in Good Housekeeping magazine. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has seized as "contraband" for quality and safety reasons at least two products advertised in the magazine, and is reportedly investigating several others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Seal of Approval | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...examine the facts presented to us as a result of Mr. Bowle's survey. First, he says that "The sample is sufficiently large to establish its main conclusions." In the first place, let me point out that this class is not a random sample of Harvard students--even less so than other classes because of its politically oriented topic. Therefore, any claims that the 163 students of Soc Sci 125 stand for "Harvard" are questionable, to say the least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOC SCI 125 SURVEY | 2/20/1969 | See Source »

There will be a meeting of all Biology concentrators to discuss possible changes in the department, and to elect three students to the Committee on Undergraduate Affairs of the department at 8 p.m. tonight in the Main Lecture Room of the Bio Labs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology Meeting | 2/19/1969 | See Source »

...less violence in the universities this school year than last." (An apology for the story on Wisconsin on the front page.) "The rich may be getting richer but the poor are certainly not getting poorer." (An apology for the series on hunger in America on the front page.) "The main thing in America is not the political activities but the nonpolitical majority that just goes on acting, and the quality of hope in them is too deep to be lost in a generation." (An apology for the whole front page...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: The Washington Monthly | 2/19/1969 | See Source »

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