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Back in March, the Capitol rang with feverish cries for damn-the-deficits measures to end the recession. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, galloping into the leadership vacuum created by the White House's late-winter indecisions, loomed tall in the saddle at the head of the Democratic antirecession troops. The Capitol's leaderless Republicans milled about restively. Pundits predicted that a tax-cut epidemic would break out on Capitol Hill, and the Administration's foreign aid and reciprocal trade bills seemed doomed to hatcheting...
...much of its energy whetting the consumers' appetites for things they do not need. The consequence of this lack of "social balance" is that production, largely in private hands, has far outdistanced services, which Galbraith seems to think are the responsibility of government. Thus there are plenty of vacuum cleaners but few street cleaners, a plethora of automobiles but no place to park. "The more goods people procure, the more trash must be carried away . . . the greater the wealth the thicker the dirt...
...Open Door. Cord's political start came when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the state senate from Esmeralda County; he explains his decision to accept as a simple matter of civic consciousness. Cord quickly began moving into the Democratic power vacuum created by the 1954 death of U.S. Senator Pat McCarran. He won labor support by pushing through a bill hiking unemployment benefits from $50 to $75 a week. He found favor with Nevada's powerful gambling interests by leading the fight for a bill giving them new tax benefits (the bill was vetoed...
Uncomibird with Education. In Texarkana, Tex., the Gazette gave a spelling test to screen job applicants (sample answers: mislanison for miscellaneous, axsesserys for accessories, vacon for vacuum, uncomibird for unencumbered), found just one person who could make a perfect score: a 45-year-old housewife with an eighth-grade education...
...first test-firing and test-explosion of a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile at loo-mile-plus altitude to determine how a nuclear fireball will act in space's near-vacuum, an experiment preliminary to the building of an anti-missile missile. (The Russians test-exploded their first atomic missile, U.S. intelligence believes, at 60-mile altitude above Siberia last winter...