Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAXES: Johnson wants to cut by about $1.5 billion federal excise taxes on retail items, perhaps including luggage, jewelry, cosmetics. Congress is eager indeed to slash excise taxes-so much so that there is considerable agitation to repeal nearly all of them. Frugal Lyndon wants to stop far short of that and may run into rugged opposition to holding the cuts down to his figure. But Albert is slightly optimistic, says: "I do think something can be worked out." The President also wants Congress to ensure quickie tax-cut procedures that would allow fast-but temporary-action should a recession...
...based on the conviction that his party must devise "attractive, workable alternatives to Administration proposals." In South Viet Nam, for example, he favors destruction of Red supply lines from North to South. "If we have to go above the border, then we have to do it. We must stop the erosion of our position...
...acute coin shortage at home has forced the U.S. Treasury to stop minting "proof sets" of U.S. coins.* To discourage collecting, the U.S. has even decided to emboss all coins minted in the first half of 1965 with last year's date. So U.S. numismatists have turned to Canada for this year's issue...
...German church leaders, though embarrassed by Niemöller's political views, have never moved to depose him because of his international prestige. At 73, he has retired from all his offices in the Evangelical Church; his fellow clerics hold some faint hope that eventually he will stop firing torpedoes without upping periscope...
...third stage, which includes the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of '64, segregation becomes illegal. That's where we are now. Legislation can't change the heart, but it can "restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me--and that's pretty important too." (King understands there's a sort of sub-stage in here, a "de facto" stage in which civil rights pressure groups employ non-violent methods to make laws into realities.) The final plateau ushers in "the new Jerusalem ascending...