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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much less cost, he feels. Oother investigators agree that consumer demand will be considerably less than current predictions. B. K. Lundbergh, a Swedish scientists, published a report last month on the problem of "dead time," the fact that the short flight time will make night flights to Europe extremely unpopular, since passengers would no longer be able to plan on getting a night's sleep during the crossing...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Protest Blossoms as Sonic Booms | 9/26/1967 | See Source »

...President's last hope is for a change of heart by Mills. So far, however, the chairman has had scarcely a kind word for the bill. Apart from the political hazards of voting an unpopular new tax, the Arkansan is innately skeptical of economic prognosticators and-despite the almost-unanimous verdict of his witnesses-far from persuaded by their predictions of an inflationary spiral. On the contrary, Mills fears that added taxes may have the opposite effect of stifling growth. And he is unconvinced that $6 billion raised by the surtax can make a real dent in the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Moribund Surtax | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...army has done little to restore order. Reinforced by unpopular Northerners, General Huang Yung-sheng's local garrison concentrates on trying to keep the cash-earning flow of fruits and vegetables moving down to Hong Kong, 90 miles away. But even that job may soon become tougher as the feuding Cantonese gather stocks of arms. Only last week Peking wall posters complained that Cantonese rebels hijacked weapons from a ship bound for North Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Chaos in Canton | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...authorized the Fed action, Chairman William McChesney Martin, has recently stated that the "main need of the economy" is prompt action by Congress on the Administration's tax plan. Because there is always considerable opposition in Congress against such unpopular tax proposals, it is one that much be hard pushed. Otherwise, the Fed will have to depend on its own monetary solutions. No doubt Congress will reduce the 10 per cent figure to six or eight per cent before voting on it; even at 10 per cent it is no panacea: the tax hike will not eliminate the deficit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: While Raising Taxes . . . . | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

During his nine years as apostolic delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, 61, proved to be a somewhat enigmatic and unpopular figure to American Catholics. There were few expressions of regret when Rome announced that Vagnozzi, who last month was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI, would become a member of the Vatican's Consistorial and Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Congregations. His successor is Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, currently apostolic delegate to Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Pope's Fraternal Eyes | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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