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...welfare programs that the President has urged upon Congress-aid to education, increases in the minimum wage, help for depressed areas, and medical care for the aged through social security-add up to a fairly brisk speedup in the U.S.'s creeping welfarism, but the separate proposals are in scope much the same as Candidate Nixon suggested...
Shortly after the first Russian Sputnik soared into orbit in October 1957, Gates picked up the enthusiasm of the Navy's Polaris missile boosters, fought the civilian battles for a speedup in the Polaris program through the Defense Department and the White House. As a result, the first battle-ready Polaris sub put to sea three years ahead of the original schedule (TIME, Nov. 28). With Russia ahead of the U.S. in land-based ballistic missiles, the U.S. would be facing a formidable weapons gap in the early 1960s had Polaris not been pushed...
...other superfluous Bantu" by sending them back to the Bantu areas in the back country. White employers had already made "idlers" of thousands by firing Africans who had stayed away from work, and Erasmus' police set to work rounding them up. There was hopeful talk of a massive speedup in Verwoerd's program to create a group of rural statelets called Bantustans for use as a faraway residence for most of the black population. The government also launched a crash program to encourage more white immigration from Europe...
...President's decision underscored his conviction that, by judiciously selecting its first-string weapons and eliminating those of secondary strategic importance, the U.S. can build an adequate deterrent force within the $41 billion defense budget. Last week's speedup in offensive weapons stays within that limit. The money for it, and an extra $99 million to boot, will come from scrubbing two non-missile nuclear subs-designed mostly for antisubmarine warfare-and by slashing into programs for the BOMARC anti-bomber missile and its SAGE electronics net (TIME, April...
What Macmillan was objecting to was the speedup in the Common Market's plans to lower its internal tariff walls while raising barriers against other traders. A plan before the Common Market already proposes to chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps...