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Defense may be Robert McNamara's business, but the U.S. armed forces remain a special concern of Congress. The Senate last week voted 89 to 0 for a $1 billion pay boost for servicemen, despite the Defense Secretary's protests that the sum was twice as much as was needed. The Senate bill differed only in minor detail from the version that whipped through the House 410 to 0. The Congress thus assured an average raise of more than 10% for the nation's 2,681,747 servicemen on active duty. The bill also provides...
...couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security bonuses will quickly be spent, chiefly on food, clothing, recreation, services and travel. Reason: couples over 65 have an average income of only...
That was the sum total of the military news. At the same time, Johnson went out of his way to declare that the U.S. is ready, willing, and indeed anxious to negotiate about Viet Nam with "any government at any place at any time." He said that he had sent the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, to New York with a letter requesting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to use all his best offices to try to achieve a peace settlement. He even mentioned the terms laid down by Hanoi last April, terms then indignantly rejected...
...They gaze on it with a unique warmth: along with 3,000 other investors in a syndicate they formed four years ago, they have a 114-year lease on it. The tower is a fitting emblem of their domain, which last week made a major expansion. For an undisclosed sum, the partners bought the entire fiefdom of hotels and movie houses assembled over 47 years by J. (for Junius) Myer Schine...
Adlai Stevenson was greater than the sum of his accomplishments...