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...Post was quick to accept the challenge-not only the editorial's author, bald, scholarly Pulitzer Prize Biographer Merlo Pusey, 51, but the Post's editorial-page director, Robert Estabrook, 35, agreed to make the hike. Both warned their readers that they still believed in the highway...
...thinking it good politics in an election year. This is questionable, especially since such an old hand as Dan Reed, chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, is dead set against a freeze. He believes that if Americans want social security, they ought to pay for it. (The hike would also mean more revenue for the Government, and a smaller cash deficit next year.) Furthermore, unlike most taxes, those who will pay for the boost are solidly for it. Labor and employers, most of whose pension plans are tied to social-security payments, fear that unless social-security income...
Thus those in favor of the hike argue that the Government will not be able to meet its obligations to the 48 million Americans now covered by social security without more income for the fund. At the present 1½rate of contributions, the trust fund will be exhausted by 1967, but at 2% it would last until some time after 1975. And if later scheduled increases (to 2½% in 1960, 3% in 1965, and 3¼% in 1970) go through, the trust fund will exceed $65 billion by century...
Charm School. In Paterson, N.J., filing a suit for separate maintenance, Mrs. Frances Constantino complained that her husband Michael, attempting to make her lose 55 lbs., had rationed her food, made her swim until she was exhausted, insisted that she take a five-mile hike every day for a month...
Under Hunt's direction, over 40 Somerville and Cambridge youths, ranging in age from seven to 14, whose chief sport had been breaking window's and trampling flower beds, today swim in the I.A.B. pool and hike through the Blue Hills...