Word: program
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...strong is the sentiment for tax revision that the House would not consider the extension bill until President Nixon promised to send up a reform program later this year. Even with Nixon's pledge, the margin was an almost invisible five votes. The Democratic leadership in the Senate was less trusting. Reform, the leaders reasoned, means one thing to them, another to a President who during the campaign favored retention of the oil-depletion allowance-one of the chief targets of the reformers. Their other goals include a minimum income tax to eliminate the anomaly of some millionaires...
Though Nixon pledged that the program would not be forced on individuals against their beliefs, an official of the New York Catholic archdiocese charged that it would add "an implicit pressure" on welfare mothers to accept. A Florida N.A.A.C.P. leader also criticized the program on the grounds that blacks "need to produce more babies, not less," for added political power. The plan, however, drew praise from many family planning and demographic experts and from the Episcopal bishop of California, C. Kilmer Myers. Indeed, unless the birth rate is cut, U.S. population (now more than 200 million) will exceed 300 million...
...interests of public safety." So worried about safety were the Newport city fathers that they issued an edict prohibiting any rock at Wein's Newport Folk Festival last weekend. As it happens, no rock groups had been scheduled to appear, but Wein called off a pre-festival program that was to have been built around another hot new British combo, Blind Faith. "Rock is out," he said...
...problem is posed by the Viet Nam war, which is creating thousands of widows who must grapple with grief. In an effort to help them, a Navy psychiatrist at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has set up a program that uses their common tragedy to turn them toward the future. A teacher of group therapy at U.C.L.A. before entering the service, Lieut. Commander Leonard Zunin launched "Operation Second Life" with the idea that the best help for widows can come from other widows. In a sense, he is simply employing the form of help more "primitive" societies take for granted: letting...
Perhaps the freshest play is Ptakovina, by Milan Kundera, who is one of those fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made into a film shown at Cannes this year. Ptakovina is a made-up word, literally "Birdtrick," meaning stupidity...