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...reasoning seemed to be that advance notice would dilute some of the antiwar fervor, put the protesters in an awkward position and buy time. Then the President could deliver a calm, judicious review of his strategy, contrast it with the situation he had inherited and try to win more public understanding...
...With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible...
...establishes a judicial canon that will probably end dejure segregation before the start of the 1970 school year, though full integration in the physical sense is a very different matter. At the same time, the judgment may well provoke confusion, scattered violence and, temporarily at least, some damage to public education in parts of the South...
...DEPLETION. Despite a last-ditch attempt by Chairman Long to hold the oil-depletion allowance at its present 27½%, the Finance Committee bowed to public pressure to attack what many regard as the most egregious of tax shelters. Beaten, Long himself led a move to reduce the allowance to 23% - a higher figure than the House-approved cut to 20% - hoping to forestall an even greater reduction. The Senate version of the bill substantially reduces the additional taxes to be collected from the oil industry. Where the House bill would have raised the industry's taxes...
FOUNDATIONS. Even harder hit than the oil industry were the country's nonprofit foundations. They are easy political prey. Feared by some liberals because they represent aggregations of tremendous wealth over which there is no public control, the foundations are also mistrusted by conservatives because many of them support liberal causes with tax-free resources. In a move that was as political as it was economic, the Senate committee departed from the House bill to substitute a .2% tax on assets for a 7½% tax on net investment income and capital gains. It also went far beyond...