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...Ragtime Two-Step. The light-footedness took place at two White House parties, the annual diplomatic corps reception, and a state dinner for Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Regardless of what the musicians played, samba, cha-cha-cha, Dixieland or waltz, Lyndon kept in time with a simple two-step...
...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...
...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...
...Two other Ivy League schools have announced tuition rises recently. Cornell will raise tuition to $1700 next fall, and Dartmouth has announced a two-step tuition rise to $1675 in September, 1963, and $1800 in September, 1964. Columbia will raise tuition to $1700 next fall, as the second half of a two-part increase...
What Kennedy was planning, though he did not say so in his speech, was a two-step approach: first, tax reduction paying lip service to reform; then, perhaps much later, real reform, sweetened with additional cuts. Concluded the President: "A high order of statesmanship and determination will be required if the possible is not to wait on the perfect. But a nation capable of marshaling these qualities to meet a sudden and dramatic threat to its security is surely equally capable of meeting a creeping and complex threat to our economic vitality...