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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn that a distinguished group of Washington eggheads in the mental-health ward says that I must not feel "hostile" if my child is "queered" by one of our nation's 12 million homos...
Last week Long kept his pledge with only hours to spare. He reported out a bill that provides relief to the country's 72.8 million individual taxpayers and brings long-needed reform to tax statutes. Lowering tax rates and increasing certain deductions, the bill would reduce individual taxes by $9 billion by 1972. Closing loopholes, it would raise an additional $6.5 billion in federal revenues by 1979. The loss is expected to be offset by normal expansion of the economy...
...higher figure than the House-approved cut to 20% - hoping to forestall an even greater reduction. The Senate version of the bill substantially reduces the additional taxes to be collected from the oil industry. Where the House bill would have raised the industry's taxes by $400 million a year, the Senate measure will raise only $155 million...
...over Cuba, posters proclaim TEN MILLION IN '70-a reminder that Fidel Castro is counting on an unprecedented harvest of 10 million tons of sugar next year. What makes that goal remarkable is that this year's crop will probably total no more than 4,500,000 tons. Nonetheless, despite drought, shoddy Soviet machinery and Cuba's inefficient armies of "volunteer" cane cutters, the Maximum Leader is confident of success. And why not? To achieve his target, Fidel is stretching the calendar...
...most disturbing item in the new budget is the $1.5 million deficit predicted in the "unrestricted income" figure. The total Faculty budget is made of three subtotals: unrestricted income, restricted endowment income, and gifts for special purposes. Money in the last two categories is earmarked for special expenses such as endowed chairs; it cannot be used to make up shortages in general operating costs, which all fall into the "unrestricted" category...