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...crime rate, the seeming ineradicability of poverty, the restlessness of the younger generation, the increasing use of a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs, from pot to peyote. A Gallup sampling showed that 58% of Americans consider income taxes too high-and the figure will surely swell if Johnson decides to slap a 6% surcharge on income tax rates. If he does not, the Administration may well end the current fiscal year with a deficit of $13 billion, breaking Ike's peacetime record of $12.4 billion in 1959. And some Republicans claim that it could go as high as $25 billion...
...trustees transformed their slap at the Selective Service into a broad change in educational policy. The trustees' statement, which avoided mention of the Selective Service, explained vaguely that they had tried to prevent an "intrusion by the university...into the political arena" or, at least, something that would be "regarded" as an intrusion. Their move, however, accomplished what the Faculty wanted: draft boards no longer can obtain class ranks from Columbia students...
...Slap in the Face. Few Negroes took Powell's disgrace as calmly as Adam did. CORE's Floyd McKissick called the House vote a "slap in the face to every black man in this country." Ralph Bunche, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin joined in the chorus. At least one Negro who criticized the House for excluding a Negro also condemned Powell for his conduct...
...members. In the Senate, the slow-moving investigation of Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's tangled finances is scheduled to resume next week. In the House, proposals to establish an ethics committee are being pushed with new vigor. Said Massachusetts' Freshman Republican Margaret Heckler: "How can the House slap one member's wrists without holding out all members' hands for inspection...
...also aimed to slap down loose talk, particularly prevalent in the New York money markets, that it has already gone about as far as it will in easing the money supply. Acting on that notion, corporations threatened a ruinous replay of last summer's credit crisis by once again lining up to borrow. On the bond market alone, new corporate issues scheduled for this month total a record $1.5 billion-which could spark a new upward spiral in bank and bond rates. The Fed's warning seemed to have effect. Key 91-day Treasury bills, which had been...