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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, protesters against the war, unmollified by Nixon's blandishments, readied for this week's demonstrations even more ambitious than the Oct. 15 Moratorium. They would include rallies around the U.S., as before, but there could be as many as half a million marchers in Washington. If it seemed to be a scenario for confrontation, President Nixon had surely helped write the script as he penciled the Viet Nam address on his legal pads...
Many planners had questioned whether voters would actually pay to protect their environment. The answer now seems to be yes-at least if water pollution is involved. Maine's tightfisted voters, for instance, approved a $50 million bond issue to build better municipal sewage-treatment plants, but turned down a $21.5 million issue to build more highways. In New Jersey, a $271 million bond issue to launch a massive clean-water program passed easily...
Such glum speculation about electric cars is brightly optimistic compared with the realistic analysis of Economist Bruce C. Netschert, director of National Economic Research Associates. He bluntly points out that the U.S. economy is geared directly to the mighty internal-combustion engine. Conversion of the nation's 101 million vehicles to electricity, even if possible, would cause nothing less than an economic trauma...
...Mclntire was pointedly not returned to the council's executive committee, on which he has sat for 28 years. The convention also passed a resolution criticizing him for his cavalier transfer of an A.C.C.C. relief fund to the l.C.C.C.-and then spending some 54% of nearly half a million dollars for "administrative expenses" over eight years...
...There's a revolution going on in the world, if you look, you can't miss it. There are 200 million people in the U.S.A. and they're only a tiny speck before the specter of world revolution...