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...great honor for us to have President Nixon in the headquarters of both the EEC and NATO [Feb. 28]. His aim is to wipe out egoistic nationalism, unstable coexistence and indifferent neutrality in order to build up a renewed Atlantic alliance: a united people with a united purpose. This is the only guarantee against the Russian nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

WBAI-FM, New York City's radical, listener-sponsored radio station, has 20,000 subscribers. In the last two months, however, it often seems as though the rest of New York's 18 million inhabitants would like to wipe it off the airwaves. Never too comfortable with the right wing, nobody was much surprised when several years ago WBAI was accused of "subversion" by the Senate equivalent of HUAC; those who knew were more likely to be flattered. But almost all of the station's latest attackers would be proud to call themselves "liberals," and would even more proudly defend...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: WBAI's Problems | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

Radcliffe's proposal is sure to be accepted by Harvard. The University has long subsidized its step-daughter, and a formal merger would only wipe out the myriad minor annoyances resulting from the fiction that Radcliffe lives apart from Harvard...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Wedding Plans Indefinite, But Merger Is Inevitable | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

Radcliffe's proposal is sure to be accepted by Harvard. The University has long subsidized its step-daughter, and a formal merger would only wipe out the myriad minor annoyances resulting from the fiction that Radcliffe lives apart from Harvard...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Merger Is Now Inevitable But It Will Take Time | 2/23/1969 | See Source »

...BENEFITS. Although Richard Nixon proposed in the 1968 campaign that benefits should automatically increase with rises in the cost of living, Mills is skeptical: "We no sooner passed the Social Security Act of 1967, increasing benefits, than inflation is allowed to get to such an extent as to practically wipe out the increases. There are those who have said that the social security benefits should be related to and geared to cost of living increases. I have never favored that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wilbur Mills on Taxes and Spending | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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