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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Meany's elaboration of labor's status and goals was in effect a reply to Reuther's charges and exhortations. Among A.F.L.-C.I.O. goals, Meany outlined a call for a million public-service jobs paying at least the federal minimum wage, an Administration putsch against nonunion (especially Southern textile) plants, at least 200,000 new public-housing units a year through 1969 and an annual half-million thereafter, a huge extension of public-transit facilities, more bountiful social-welfare benefits, and greatly expanded Government job-training and placement programs. And despite its support for the President...
...Harvard and M.I.T. pledged to contribute half. The remaining $500,000 would be put up by business and industry in Cambridge. The Corporation, as in Myerson's original scheme, would rarely give money away. Rather it would be a source from which money could be borrowed quickly with a minimum of red tape...
C.O.R. is now showing that it can practice the responsibility it preaches. It has brought its first Vietnamese children to the U.S. with a minimum of antiwar propaganda and a maximum of care. The first seven children are quietly receiving treatment at San Francisco's Mount Zion and Boston's Beth Israel hospitals and Los Angeles' U.C.L.A. Medical Center. C.O.R. has cut through mountainous Vietnamese red tape, raised $250,000, set up temporary foster homes for recuperating children, and has promises of donated services from more than 700 doctors available across the U.S. The children selected could...
...major focus and strength, though, is local. It claims more than 440,000 viewers a week. Among them: Mayor John Shelly, Lawyer Melvin Belli, Shirley Temple Black, who is a member of KQED's board of directors, and 36,000 other Northern Californians, who devotedly donate a minimum $12.50 annual membership fee that provides more than a quarter of the $2,400,000 budget. Another $200,000 to $300,000 comes from a wild annual public sale that in the past has attracted Auctioneers Ronald Reagan, Willie Mays and Bishop James Pike to gavel down such items...
Secret Talks. Britain's third devaluation in 36 years was cannily crafted to cause a minimum of commotion throughout the free world. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government carefully scaled the size of its move to produce a small response. Anything more than a 15% devaluation, the British were warned in the delicate, secret negotiations that preceded it, would have impelled France, Belgium and The Netherlands to mark down their money in retaliation. Had that occurred, the resulting chain of devaluations might have ripped the world's monetary system apart, and perhaps even caused a prosperity...