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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What gave Nixon his confidence was the decision by the House Ways and Means Committee to report out the bill exactly as he had requested-extending the surtax at its present 10% rate for six months and continuing it for another half-year at 5%. The bill also eliminates the 7% tax credit for business investment. The committee vote of 16 to 9 was the result of prodding by Chairman Wilbur Mills, a Democrat, some nudging by John Byrnes, the ranking Republican, and a last-minute thrust by the President himself. Nixon sent Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and Paul McCracken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Progress on Inflation | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...station, Lindsay listened to the program over his car radio with increasing rage. When he finally arrived, he delivered a steamy counterattack. Then Gray needled the mayor about illegally parked cars near the studio-autos that bore no traffic tickets. Lindsay retorted: "Why didn't you report them?" Finally, after a lecture to Gray on civic responsibility, the mayor stood up and grumped out of the studio. Spotting a limousine awaiting another of Gray's radio guests parked in front of the Madison Avenue building housing the studio, Lindsay shouted at the bewildered chauffeur: "Whose car is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Civic Responsibility | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...role of the ghetto policeman, said the Kerner Commission report, "is already one of the most difficult in our society. He must deal daily with a range of problems and people that test his patience, ingenuity, character and courage in ways that few of us are ever tested." Patrolman Ronald August, then 28, faced his test on the night of July 26, 1967, when Detroit writhed in the grip of the decade's worst ghetto riot. He was one of three policemen who, with state troopers and National Guardsmen, rushed into the Algiers Motel seeking a reported sniper. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: The Algiers Verdict | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...seniors was surprisingly placid, sentimental and traditional. Dissent was spoken of by student valedictorians, and by their elders receiving honorary degrees. But there was also a sense of nostalgia and guarded anticipation of the future -shadowed by the presence of the war in Viet Nam. Following is a firsthand report on the commencement spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencement, 1969: Pomp and Protest | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

During the next seven months, the parallel movements occurred about 40 more times. The only possible explanation for those multiple coincidences, wrote Weber in a report to Physical Review Let ters, a publication of the American Physical Society, was that the instruments had actually recorded gravity waves from far out in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relativity: Gravitating Toward Einstein | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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