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...being generated by Viet Nam and domestic spending, the Administration should be working toward a budgetary surplus instead of a deficit. This would be the second, or braking, part of the New Economics, whose expansionary aspects set off the economic boom. Heller called for a boost in taxes to sop up surplus demand, added that "some pruning of low-priority expenditures will also be necessary." Said he: "Our economy is powerful enough to afford guns and butter. But it does not follow that we can afford guns...
...been deskbound in Washington for years, but now Career Girl Carol Laise, 48, is outward bound. L.B.J. tapped her last week to be U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. And it wasn't a political sop either. Carol has spent eleven years in the Foreign Service and is one of the State Department's top Asia experts. More than that, she's made four trips to the remote, Himalayan-crowned kingdom. Which makes just about everybody happy: the Nepalese because they get a plenipotentiary who knows their problems, and Carol because, as she said, "I won't have...
...plays on the London stage in any given week, and it costs little more to see one than to go to a movie. However, says Peter Hall, "we've got rid of that stuffy middle-aged lot that go to the theater as a sop for their prejudices. We're getting a younger audience who are looking for experiences and will take them from the latest pop record or Hamlet." The In Hamlet this year is David Warner, 24, who plays the Dane with Beatle haircut and a Carnaby Street slouch...
...Cerberus that grows more than 3,000,000 heads a year, many of them hungry for truth. The Soviet leaders appease this appetite with huge helpings of technological and scientific fact, but when it comes to political truth, they either stonily ignore the demand or cynically toss a sop to Cerberus...
...federation responded to pressure from its own liberal wing by adopting a strong pro-civil rights resolution. As another sop to its social conscience, Meany pledged in his keynote address that organized labor would fight to improve the lot "of all the little people of America...