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...many other things involving this paradoxical man, the appearance belies the truth. Johnson has been a fighter in a dozen different arenas. No President has ever laid his prestige so squarely on the line in behalf of the Negro. None has tried so persistently to persuade the wealthiest nation on earth of the need to uproot poverty. None has achieved more for the advancement of education and health. If Johnson occasionally steps back emphasizing a law and order bill rather than a new package of civil rights proposals, for example his retreat is almost certainly tactical, not strategic...
...dozen tourists a week. The loss of the West Bank deprived the nation of a quarter of its farmland, more than half its production of vegetables, olives and fruit, 30% of its wheat, 48% of its industry and nearly half of its 2.1 million people, including many of its wealthiest taxpayers. Unemployment, swelled by the flood of refugees, has soared to 35% and is still climbing; factories, unable to sell their goods, are cutting back production and laying off workers...
...While the war is hardly beyond the means of the world's wealthiest nation, many Americans are beginning to begrudge such vast expenditures as disproportionate to the results...
WILD, WILD WEST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Agnes Moorehead plays Emma Valentine, a socialite who seems to be involved in murdering some of the West's wealthiest men. Repeat of the show that won her a 1967 Emmy Award...
Today Western Europe is the wealthiest complex of nations in the world, with a combined gross national product of $508 billion, v. the East Bloc's $443 billion. Only two former Marshall Plan members-Greece and Turkey-are still receiving U.S. economic aid, most of it in P.L. 480 food surpluses and low-interest loans. Out of the ashes of World War II, the nations of Western Europe have forged not only a Common Market but also a sense of common interest that, for all the disruptions and distractions caused today by Gaullist France, may be destined to achieve...