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...draft that puts them there. The move would also eliminate the need to force men to go to war against their consciences, and end such other distortions as paying soldiers far less than they would get if they were civilians, or forcing other young men into early marriages and profitless studies to avoid the draft. Incentive, substituted for compulsion, could cut waste and motivate pride. Not least, a volunteer army would work substantially toward restoring the national unity so sundered by the present inequalities of the draft...
After centuries of speculation, most of it idle and all of it profitless, typical gout was recognized in 1931 as an "inborn error of metabolism," indicating that something was wrong with the patients' enzyme systems. But what? Although it was easy to show that victims had an excess of uric acid in their blood, the metabolic pathways by which it got there remained hidden in the biochemical jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance...
...billion mark and the nation's uninterrupted expansion percolated into its 84th month, three months longer than the old record. There were inflationary signs, a big balance-of-payments deficit, pressure on the dollar after Britain's devaluation of the pound. Economists and politicians began talking about "profitless prosperity." When Johnson asked belatedly for a 10% surcharge on income taxes to damp down the supercharged economy, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted on an equivalent cut in federal spending that the President was unwilling to make...
Inflation could rob Johnson of the potentially powerful pocketbook issue. G.O.P. orators are already putting emphasis on the phrase "profitless prosperity." Though the President may be tempted to campaign on the theme of "You never had it so good," it is doubtful that U.S. voters will give him all the credit. "They think that they had something to do with it, too," says a Democratic strategist. Johnson contends that his proposed 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes would help avert inflation, but he is having little luck in persuading Congress. Unless the surcharge is enacted, he warns...
...approval he enjoyed in January 1964. Viet Nam is his foremost problem, and barring either a spectacular military triumph or successful negotiations with Hanoi, a G.O.P. candidate might well argue, a la Eisenhower, that a new Administration is needed to end an unpopular war. The looming threat of inflation-"profitless prosperity" as Washington's Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities and the exploding ghettos could develop into the biggest issue of all. Taken together, the problems are helping to build a formidable "anti" vote-the kind that helped Ike to defeat Adlai Stevenson, and Franklin...