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Test of Character. In Madison, Wis., the state bureau of personnel advertised for an inspector for the beverage and cigarette division of the state tax department: "Young man with ability to drink moderately on the job when the occasion demands...
Evident across the U.S., in the midst of brisk consumer spending for new cars, power boats and vacation-bound plane trips, was an almost rebellious hostility toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used...
When Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo requested a chance to speak to General Electric workers at Lynn last month in defense of his embattled proposal to boost the state sales tax, they deluged him with 200 unfriendly questions, such as: "When are you going to forget your giveaway programs?" "Why don't you do something to stop the disgraceful, wasteful spending of the taxpayers' dollars...
...odes to Lyndon Johnson were far more meaningful. Indiana's Freshman Vance Hartke (an avowed political enemy of fellow Hoosier Butler, who opposed Hartke's nomination last year) fairly wooed the muse: "His hand has been firm on the tiller, insisting that the ship of state not founder on the rocks of partisanship. No one who has sat in this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska...
...Gaulle and I have agreed long since that at the first opportunity we would talk together [on] all of the matters where we don't quite see eye to eye . . . and see if we can do something about it," said the President at his press conference. Secretary of State Herter, on the road to Geneva, would probably sound out De Gaulle on coming to the U.S. Some U.S. authorities believe that De Gaulle may stall until the French test-fire their first atom bomb in the Sahara this summer, and can thus enter NATO's inner nuclear club...