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With one bold thrust, Anderson undercut the tax-cut advocates in both the Administration and Congress: he worked out with Rayburn and Johnson an informal understanding that neither side would push for a tax cut without first discussing it with the other side. That understanding, dubbed the "Treaty of the Rio Grande," effectively fenced off the tax-cut issue from partisan politics. Despite widespread clamor, there was no tax cut. The U.S. soon began to pull out of the recession. Anderson believes this was one of the key economic-policy victories of U.S. history...
Policy on the Move. Concern with "softness" goes deeper. Said the Rev. Homer McEwen, Negro pastor of Atlanta's First Congregational Church: "We have lost our traditional thrust toward a moral society." Watching the modern morality play unfold in Washington, a Bostonian remarked: "The awful thing about the quiz show scandals is that we're looking at ourselves." But a Los Angeles man said, "This television mess is a pimple on the body politic-what Kennedy is talking about is the real illness...
...teapot on the top shelf, out of the reach of her four small children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners, and graduate and undergraduate meetings is theirs. Others elect a university affiliation: the Drs. Rudolph teach a course together on Indian Government and the Handlins work together on research. Mrs. Galbraith teaches German...
MOSCOW, Nov. 12--The Soviet Union thrust the dormant Berlin issue to the fore again today by charging that the West German government plans to build a new radio station in West Berlin for propaganda...
...missilemen when their bird was fired, Biography recorded every important aspect in the life of one of man's most intricate creations. The cameras sighted in on the meticulous welding of Juno's outer skin at the Chrysler plant in Detroit; they watched her engine-thrust (equal to 20 F-86 jet fighters) test at the Rocketdyne plant in Southern California. Artfully, accurately, never wasting a frame, they were on hand at Cape Canaveral on July 16, when the countdown began for the firing of the finished missile. Just 5½ seconds after Juno II rose from...