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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the toss-in. At one time, Kennedy had talked of tax reform as though it were just as important a part of his program as reduction. Now he made it perfectly plain that reduction, which in itself is reform of a sort, came first-and that overall reform might well be sacrificed. Answering questions from the floor, he said: "If we cannot get the reform, then quite obviously you are going to have to rewrite the package. That isn't our judgment of the best action. But I quite agree that what we need...
...consensus favoring a tax cut, but, judging by reactions registered on Capitol Hill, it has been drowned by waves of antagonism-stirred up largely by the Administration. The President has sent to Congress a lardy budget showing a deficit of $11.9 billion, thereby repelling members of Congress and plain citizens who are reluctant to see the deficit enlarged by tax reduction. The President's tax package itself has alienated a lot of potential support because it is flawed by political bias, provides relatively little net relief for middle-income taxpayers. As for the U.S. business community, it is getting...
There was something for everyone-at least everyone over 65. President Kennedy last week sent to the Congress a message devoted entirely to aid for the aged. Its recommendations ranged from tax benefits to increased employment opportunity. But among 36 separate proposals, it was plain that the Administration plans to bring its biggest guns to bear on behalf of the program New Frontiersmen figure has the heftiest political wallop: medical care for the aged under social security...
...hymn should be a prayer set to music," says the Rev. Gerrit Barnes of Denver's Christ Church (Episcopal). "It should follow the idea of 'make a joyful noise unto the Lord.''' Ideas change about what is joyful noise, and what is just plain noise. Church musicians and their pastors are quietly revising the nation's taste in congregational song, and in the process are consigning a surprising number of quaint old favorites to oblivion, while searching oblivion for revivable classics. Dr. Charles C. Hirt, professor of church music at the University of Southern...
...have ranged from high royalty and heads of state (Belgium's Leopold III and son Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...