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Despite all the hostility, the President predicted at his press conference that "we are going to get the tax cut." Although there are differences of opinion about details, he said, "there is a consensus that there should be a tax cut." In a speech before Wall Street security analysts, Presidential Economic Adviser Walter W. Heller made the same point, spoke of the "remarkable consensus which developed in 1962 on the economy's need for a federal...
Schlesinger says "the difference between the two groups is probably at bottom a difference in temperament." He adds that the emotional origins of contemporary radical thought "lie in a profound dislike for what the critics regard as a suffocating consensus blanketing American life--a consensus which most of them trace to a refusal to confront the implications of nuclear...
...than denunciation. Speaking in Boston, Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper told his Republican audience that the Democratic Party had won its majority position "because it is a lively party . . . because it gives the idea of change and progress," and he urged the Republicans to strive for a consensus "upon the fundamental purposes and interests of our party." New York's Senator Jacob Javits called upon the G.O.P. to work out "positive programs" and "long-range plans" to put before the nation. Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield declared that the Republican Party "must offer a youthful...
...Internship" Is In. Professional mobility is easier than it used to be, because most seminaries have reached a consensus on curriculum: plenty of theology and a minimum of how-to courses (although Chicago's famed Moody Bible Institute still offers a two-year "pre-aviation" course for flying missionaries). The trend now is to systematic theology, Biblical criticism, New and Old Testament languages-and to a study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There...
Sunnier Future. Despite the emergent consensus, prolonged hearings, intense lobbying and impassioned arguments lie ahead for the Administration's tax program. Though they advocate tax reduction in principle, conservatives in both branches of Congress are wary of cutting taxes at a time when the Federal Government is already deep in the red. A deficit of about $8 billion is estimated for the current fiscal year. Another massive deficit lies ahead in fiscal 1964, even without a tax cut. Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, recently said that "sharp reductions in federal expenditures should precede...