Tax Shockers Ahead Bite Into Alameda County Bills
The piece forecasts higher costs for government in the coming year as Alameda County employees push for larger raises. It argues that property tax bills will rise with higher assessments, while federal income tax relief for middle earners fades under reform. It notes 1040 form changes worsen the burden for low income filers and questions whether either tax or death can be avoided.
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Alameda County
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Millz
D.-Ark
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Rep
Mills
Washington
Cassell
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Nixon Urges Mutual Vietnam Troop Withdrawals
Countdown reports President Nixon calling for mutual troop withdrawals from Vietnam amid uncertainty from the enemy. Congressmen accuse the Army of funding GI winter underwear under Vietnam exercises, criticizing secrecy and questioning concealment of expenses. The piece satirically notes the Army’s behavior and references long johns and itching as signs of disclosure.
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Vietnam
White workers face quotas claim in federal integration push
Washington report argues that federal enforcement of civil rights laws creates perceived white discrimination through affirmative action and black hiring quotas. It critiques the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and Office of Federal Contract Compliance, urging clearer court guidance on enforced integration and preservation of equal opportunity for whites. It cites debates in Congress and warns against vague, quota driven programs.
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Washington, D.C
Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
Office of Federal Contract Compliance
EROC
OFC
Hart
Kennedy
Javits
Brooke
Scott
SDS Workers Probe Factory Life To Spark Revolution
The piece warns SDS members to seek factory jobs this summer to infiltrate American industry. It recalls a 15 year old Flint incident where Marxist students entered plants, but were violently expelled by workers and the UAW rank and file. The author argues unions and workers resist SDS tactics and laments campus elites’ detachment from toil.
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SDS
Dad
Flint
Michigan State College
UAW
Don Maclean Endorses ABM Defense Citing Capital Protection
Washington columnist cites Rep Mark Andrews North Dakota speech endorsing the ABM system as essential for protecting key missile sites and the capital. He warns against disarmament trends, notes Soviet advances, and argues ABM costs are minor relative to the defense budget.
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Washington
Congress
J. William Fulbright
North Dakota Motor Carriers Association
Mark Andrews
N.D
Andrews
Rep. Andrews
France
Pentagon
Harem Clutters Up Government Inaugural Year
A New York writer visiting Washington rails at Nixon era advisers and programs. He mocks Republican types as bores, urges divorce of party from Democratic policy like foreign aid and War on Poverty, and imagines an Esquire piece on New Men Around Nixon detailing how Democrats still influence a GOP administration.
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Washington, D.C
New York City
Esquire
Nixon
George Romney
Barry Goldwater
Golden Boys
JFK
LBJ
McKinley
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Truman
Richard Nixon
Strom Thurmond
George Wallace
United States
Supreme Court contempt warning and odd quotes
A collection of quips about the Supreme Court balancing on contempt, a sign for an out of order justice proposed in San Francisco, commentary on Hayakawa’s political prospects in California, a misplaced 434000 in Idaho highways, and a sharp remark about Arabs, Red China, and missiles.
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Idaho
Red
China
Ung
Russia
U.S
This Day In History Highlights Major 1917 Draft
Key events on this date include 9.5 million American men aged 21 to 30 registering for World War I in 1917, FDR signing the bill to abolish the gold standard in 1933, Gene Cernan’s Gemini spacewalk in 1966, and RFK’s assassination in Los Angeles in 1968. A Roosevelt thought notes no indispensable man.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gene Cernan
Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
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Dante B. Fascell
D-Fla
THE
Rolph Fairchild Editor
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Edward M. Kennedy
Eris Apple
E Russell Kirk
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Students For A Democratic Society
Munist
SDS Sillles
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Meany
Don Maclean
Woody's World
By John Helm
Ed Tee
Miusconstrue
Misson Strao
Coney
Sckut
Brooks Brothers
Nixon-Agsew
Marshall
Harry Truman
Thomas Dewey
Maclean's Microscoope
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Hayakawa
California
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