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...than $108 billion for next year, that there will be "a good many reductions," but that he "rather doubts" that he can hold the budget below $100 billion. Asked about the criticism of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Johnson took a conciliatory tack, said that he hoped "that this would not degenerate into a battle of personalities." He smiled widely as he spoke on the healthy state of the economy, while aides bustled on and off the porch bearing charts like Wagnerian spear carriers. The President predicted a record retail business...
...stop reading the magazine after that, we would do it." With these blunt words, Redbook Editor Robert Stein, 40, and no kin to Arthur, expressed full agreement. While Adman Stein is straightforwardly encouraging older readers to take it on the lam, Editor Stein says he is taking a subtler tack: he is running large amounts of fiction on the theory that elderly females can't stomach the stuff. Says he with ill-concealed admiration: "The ads are a quicker method...
...contenders for the Crimson are Howard Henjyoji at 123 and Ed Franquemont at 157, both sophomores, Ben Brooks at 177, and heavyweight Tack Chace. All but Brooks won at M.I.T. last Tuesday...
After Ben Brooks, the Harvard captain, was decisioned by Dave Schramm in the 177-pound class, the Engineers still had a chance to tie the match with a pin in the unlimiteds. But the Crimson's Tack Chance, enjoying a considerable weight advantage, completely outclassed Brooks Landis for an easy decision to end the meet...
There's no depth in the top two weights, but there are two good wrestlers: captain Ben Brooks at 177 and Tack Chace at heavyweight...