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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of fact, I hope this article may cause you to re-evaluate the statement in your Essay, "How to Cut the U.S. Budget" [Dec. 8], that "ripe for reduction is the $600 million yearly subsidy to the aged, ailing merchant marine." This earlier statement fails to recognize that in its broadest sense, seapower is the ability of a nation to project into the world ocean in times of peace, its national sovereignty; in times of war, its military might...
...appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
...Therefore he and his son-in-law, Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker, sought to mollify the conservatives by introducing new amendments, this time to weaken the open-housing section. Together, their amendments would exclude from the ban on dis crimination all single-family, owner-occupied housing-potentially 30 million units...
...wildly inflated estimates of damage. Of 164 disorders last year, eight turned out to be "major," 33 were "serious," and the rest were not normally worthy of attention "had the nation not been sensitized by the more serious outbreaks." Early damage estimates in Detroit ran as high as $500 million; the actual total has since dropped to $45 million...
...EMPLOYMENT. Two million jobs should be created over the next three years, half by the government and half by private enterprise. Business is already opening jobs to the "hardcore jobless" (see BUSINESS), but more must be done. The Federal Government should give tax credits or payments to private employers to reimburse them for the extra costs of training. Tax and other incentives also should be used to spark investments in poverty areas...