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Price of Reform. Delighted by the House committee's action and by the probability of a House floor vote before the summer recess begins Aug. 13, Senate Democratic leaders lost no time in pressing their new advantage. Mansfield offered to extend the surtax promptly, but that would take it only to the end of November. A further extension vote by the Senate, he said, would come only after the Ways and Means reform package had made its way through both the House and Senate to the President's desk. Republicans denounced the proposition, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen...
...unless it is combined with long-overdue tax reforms. They sense a taxpayers' revolt and know that reform has become politically popular. Tax reform is necessary, said Chairman Russell Long of the Senate Finance Committee. But extension of the surtax, he added, should be passed "before the summer recess. To mire the surtax in endless controversy over reform, said Long, would add another explosive element of uncertainty to the economy...
...benefit increase and a fiscal package that includes retention of the income tax surcharge. He has sent up measures on law enforcement, pornography control, Selective Service reform, foreign aid, Post Office reorganization and Electoral College revision. Some of these and other proposals came relatively late, after Congress' Easter recess in April, and are just getting into the committee machinery. But on the social security issue, House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills has already let it be known that Nixon's bill is too small and that the whole question should be deferred until next year...
...Viola asked to see counsel in his chambers. During the recess, a group of defendants began to sing "Solidarity Forever" in the courthouse lobby. They were told to be quiet by a court clerk. When Viola returned, he said that all counsel had agreed that assuming that all defendants were in the building, and if a warning was given, all the defendants, if called to testify, would say that they had heard no warning...
...next good workout was the next Monday, April Fool's Day, when I ran 8 1/2 miles without problems. It was spring recess, and I was in Cambridge since I was a coxswain of sorts for the freshman lightweights. I was running evenings around the paths of the Yard, averaging 5 miles. It was still strictly minor league...