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Rockefeller wiped it out with the help of an unpopular-but fiscally wise-tax hike of $277 million. Every year he has balanced his budget, and has steadily reduced the state's debt service charges from $53 million to $40 million a year...
Hussein's choice of an English bride was strongly opposed by the Queen Mother, and widely unpopular among the British-hating Palestinian refugees who comprise two-thirds of the population, but the King refused to change his mind. Muna, as he calls her, has yet to be named Queen. She was shot by Photographer Halsman not far from a cage filled with birds. Said he: "I felt she was like that...
That stance makes him as popular with his clients now as he was unpopular then...
...forces in South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
...approved by the Senate, the bill would go to the House, where the issue was close, the pressure was on-and the gladiators could get back to gladiating without worrying about Pixy Proxmire. About the only certain result of Proxmire's action was that he had made himself unpopular at the White House. Said a top Kennedy aide: "This guy cut us without warning...