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Still, the American stamp was ev ident wherever the Vice President went. Accompanied by a horde of Secret Service men and military police ("They think I have a machine that spits M.P.s," groused one provost marshal), he cop-tered to the U.S.S. Benewah, flagship of River Flotilla 1 anchored off the Delta, to pass out Purple Hearts and news from home. "Who won the Minne sota-Michigan game?" asked a Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane...
However, most economists and sensible social reformers agree with Pres ident Johnson that the world's most affluent nation can afford to fight a war abroad and simultaneously raise its standards of life and opportunity at home. The $25 billion a year or more that the U.S. is pouring into Viet Nam could not in any case be simply redeployed from the prosecution of a war to the pacification of U.S. cities. Nonetheless, the instant switch is an appealing notion...
...Johnson: "To the leaders of all the na tions of the Near East, I wish to say what three Presidents have said before: that the U.S. is firmly committed to the support of the political independence and territorial integrity of all the nations of the area." Added the Pres ident, in an obvious allusion to Viet Nam: "We have always opposed-and we oppose in other parts of the world at this moment-the efforts of other nations to resolve their problems with their neighbors by aggression. We shall continue...
Because "computing is becoming al most as much a part of our working life as arithmetic or driving a car," the Pres ident's Science Advisory Committee has urged colleges to spend $400 million a year on computer instruction by 1971. It wants the Federal Government to help by sharing the cost of acquiring and operating the big machines...
Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Pres ident's Council of Economic Advisers, told businessmen that they have no reason to raise prices, because they are earning so much already (see following story). Pointing out that profits after taxes jumped 88% between early 1961 and late 1965, he said: "It is time to ask whether a further rise in the share of profits in the national income is in the interest either of the health of the nation's economy or in the interest of business itself." Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler declared that the economic outlook is so uncertain...