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Frank Language. Whether or not the theory is true. Kennedy had no lack of urging. With U.S. business and labor already on record for a slash. M.I.T. Economist Paul Samuelson, a close Kennedy adviser, wrote a strongly worded article for London's influential Financial Times in which he predicted that the odds are ''at least even that a new downturn will come before the year's end-unless new Government action is taken." His recommendation, duly reported in the U.S.: "A sizable across-the-board reduction in tax rates on persons and corporations." Samuelson...
Drastic Measure. This anger earlier had led the Senate to slash aid funds to India by a crippling 25%, a cut the Administration had to scramble to restore...
...Chamber of Commerce and left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action seldom agree on anything-but they were together for a tax cut. On Capitol Hill, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, fighting for an immediate slash, was joined by two Republican colleagues, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and New Jersey's Clifford Case. At the conference of state Governors in Hershey, Pa., New York's Nelson Rockefeller, California's Pat Brown and Ohio's Michael Di Salle-all running for re-election this fall-added their voices to the chorus. Within the Administration...
...final analysis, was its merit. It is probably the best and the boldest measure presented so far to the Congress by the Kennedy Administration. If passed by the Senate (which seems highly probable), it will give the President, for the first time in U.S. history, sweeping powers to slash tariffs down as far as zero on many products in return for tariff concessions by other nations. Only a few years ago, such a bill would have seemed hopelessly visionary. But in just the past few months the European Common Market, long an ephemeral concept to most Americans, has taken shape...
Fire Sale. Because it is legally difficult to lay off workers in the welfare states of Western Europe, European steelmen do not follow the U.S. practice of cutting production to keep prices up whenever demand slips; instead, the Europeans go right on pouring-and slash prices. By 1965, according to the best current estimates. Western Europe's steel capacity is likely to outrun its consumption by as much as 18 million tons. If that happens, some U.S. steelmen glumly anticipate a transatlantic invasion of European steel salesmen with open order books-and cut-rate prices...