Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that reason, President Johnson last week placed tax-cut legislation ahead of civil rights in the order of congressional business. And Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee stepped up its work on the tax bill. Among other things, it approved the two-step corporate income tax cut from 52% to 48% and dumped an Administration-sponsored, House-approved provision forbidding the deduction of state and local gas taxes, automobile-and driver-license fees from federal returns. Estimated annual revenue loss: $330 million. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson called for tax-cut passage...
Thus, in a speech to committee members, National Chairman William Miller (who reaffirmed that he will step down from his job once the G.O.P. nominates a candidate in July) blistered Johnson for his tendency to "ride at least two horses-even three, if that can be managed." Miller recalled that in 1960, while Johnson was running at the same time for Vice President and for re-election to his Texas Senate seat, he supported two conflicting platforms-one from the national Democratic convention, the other from the Texas state convention...
Musical Chairs. Top American advisers remain doggedly hopeful of improvement. Government probes have at least stepped up, and in the past month troops have uncovered three major Viet Cong arms caches containing tons of weapons and ammunition. Last week, in a step reportedly urged by U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara, the junta streamlined itself...
...would be hard to find fault with any one of the propositions advanced by the San Francisco Chronicle in a series of promotion ads. But the Chronicle was unable-or unwilling-to go one long step farther, to spell out what a great newspaper is, rather than what...
...been urging its readers away from Midwestern isolationism with a world-consciousness that is the projection of globetrotting Publisher John Cowles. He yielded leadership to his son John Jr., 34, in 1960, and young Cowles seems more than competent to keep the paper where it likes to be: a step or two ahead of the whole state. Indeed, the Tribune continues to serve as a Minnesota model for good journalism. Says Publisher. Vernon Vance of the Worthington Daily Globe: "Local dailies have had to raise their standards to stay in business...