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...most promising measure is the increase in the investment tax credit for new equipment. Capital investment in the U.S. has been slipping behind the rest of the industrialized world for several years. Dwindling production capacity has been a major contributor to the nation's inflationary shortages of semifinished industrial goods, including steel, copper and paper...
...causes in his adopted state and as Governor attempted to reform the state's notorious prison system. Nor is there an office in Rockefeller Plaza for John Jr.'s oldest child, Daughter Abby Mauze, 70, the widow of Banker Jean Mauze. Although she has been a major contributor to cancer research and donated a small park to New York City, she and her philanthropies have been overshadowed by those of her brothers. Explains John D. Ill: "It was five to one, and this was before women...
Nixon immediately proposed cover-up actions. His first suggestion to Haldeman, according to the transcripts, was that each campaign contributor whose check was traced to the burglary by the FBI should claim that the burglars had approached him independently for the money. Haldeman objected that this would involve "relying on more and more people all the time." Haldeman relayed a suggestion from Mitchell and Dean that the CIA should be asked to tell the FBI to "stay to hell out of this" because the FBI probe would expose unnamed-and actually nonexistent-secret CIA operations. Asked Haldeman about...
...World Trade Corp., while his older brother Thomas Jr. took the reins of the parent company. Making his motto "world peace through world trade," he presided over a rise in IBM's foreign sales from less than $50 million to $2.5 billion annually. A major Republican contributor, Watson in 1970 was named U.S. envoy to Paris, where he served as an early diplomatic link with the Chinese Communists. He resigned his post in 1972 to rejoin IBM's board of directors...
...more outspoken opponents of the centers was Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), a frequent contributor to last year's eleven-hour debate on the bill in the House of Representatives. "When we pass a bill to provide legal aid for the poor," she asked her fellow representatives, "does it mean that we should also finance, using millions of dollars, research centers aimed solely at changing social policy? The Harvard research center actually had attorneys, who were paid with OEO funds, doing the research which led to their joining as co-sponsors with the NAACP in the Detroit segregation case... Meanwhile...