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...completed. The result, he suggests, could be disastrous. "Today, a madman in America might climb to the top of a tower for a shooting spree, or put a bomb in an airplane. But if CB weaponry were conventional, maniacs would constitute an enormous threat. An insane man could wipe out New York City...
M.I.T.'s prestigious Paul Samuelson is against a tax increase. So is New York's First National City Bank, which warned that it could have a "perverse" effect on the economy. Richard Nixon said last week that a tax hike might cause a recession that "would wipe out the gains of the past ten years." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford believes that it would be a "tragic mistake." Democratic Senators Vance Hartke of Indiana, George Smathers of Florida and William Proxmire. of Wisconsin all oppose it. The President's influential fellow Texan, Chairman Wright Patman...
...India: the Davis Cup interzone finals, beating Brazil, 3-2, at Calcutta's South Club. After beating the U.S. last month, Brazil's Edison Mandarine, 25, and Thomaz Koch, 21, might have expected to wipe up the court with the Indians. That expectation reckoned without Ramanathan Krishnan, 29. Krishnan won one singles match from Mandarine, teamed with Jaideep Mukherjea to take the doubles, and wrapped it up in a marathon match against Koch 3-6, 6-4, 10-12, 7-5, 6-2. That gives India the honor of challenging Australia on Dec. 26-and then returning home...
They have the resources to wipe out poverty and raise their standard of living to unparalleled heights; but they do not seem to have the will-power. Their children, the young men and women coming of age in the sixties, have an opportunity to participate in remaking society, to serve in engineering major social and economic change; but they do not appear to have the desire and feeling of obligation...
...presence of massive allied forces may have forced Ho Chi Minh to change his whole objective. Marine commanders now believe the Reds plan to concentrate their attack on a single American unit, overwhelm it, and if possible, wipe it out. The strike would be launched just before next month's U.S. elections, in hopes of convincing American voters that the price of the war is too high to continue. Besides, the Communists are in desperate need of a military victory. They have not had one for more than a year...