Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against that background, new perspective is given to the acrimonious stalemate between the Administration and Congress over President Johnson's midyear decision to raise his unfulfilled demand for a 6% surcharge to a demand for 10%. The President and his aides, basing their case on a debatable vision of future trouble, argued that only by raising taxes could the soaring federal deficit be shaved enough to avoid inflation. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted that the kind of trouble he saw-cost-push inflation from rising wages and prices-might only...
...Richard Lester mixes explosively funny moments with comedy of a blacker sort in a surrealistic vision of war, as a platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) attempts to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...
...Richard Lester mixes explosively funny moments with comedy of a blacker sort in a surrealistic vision of war, as a platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) attempts to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...
...million membership, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. faces a simmering struggle with its most powerful single member. Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers and Meany's rival for mastery of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., challenged Meany in a resounding resolution accusing the confederation of "complacency, lack of social vision, dynamic thrust and crusading spirit." The attack might have caused a rousing floor fight, but Reuther chose to stay in Detroit...
...foretaste in the garish $2 ties now being shipped round the country from St. Louis. "They are supposed to benefit the handicapped," says Atlanta Better Business Bureau Manager James W. Stephens. "But the people who are sending them define as handicapped anyone with less than 20-20 vision." What to do if unwanted and unordered goods arrive? Return them to the post office marked "Refused." If the merchandise is opened and lost or mislaid, Stephens still advises playing it tough. Says he: "When you get a bill, send it back with a letter saying, 'My storage fee for unsolicited...