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...Hard Facts. At Blackpool, Cousins was determined to put the unions' unhappiness on record. As the first order of conference business, he introduced a motion to condemn compulsory wage and price guidelines as dampers on both trade-union activity and economic expansion and called for their immediate repeal. In answer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins made brutally clear, "the hard facts of life" gave Britain little choice. In 1967, he pointed out, prices increased only 2% while wages jumped 6%. "The only trouble was that we did not earn it," he said. "Production that year went...
...imaginative chief executive. In contrast to some of his predecessors, he was positively revolutionary. Enjoying a year-long honeymoon with the Democrat-dominated state legislature, he pushed through a graduated income tax and obtained passage of one of the nation's toughest state antipollution laws. He also won repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings of more than five units, but Agnew later said he might even favor "total open housing...
...poor. The Department of Agriculture reacted by beefing up its food-stamp program by $20 million and pressuring 256 counties to distribute more surplus food to the poor. The U.S. welfare bureaucracy guardedly promised to hedge restrictive eligibility requirements, even though Congress would not have stood for their outright repeal. The omnibus housing bill moved closer to eventual passage. From all quarters, Government and business moved to provide more jobs...
...George Wallace's American Independent Party wins enough Deep South states to force selection of the next President into the House of Representatives. With one vote for each state delegation, a handful of Wallaceites prove crucial. What price their support? If not repeal of the 13th and 14th Amendments, an ambassadorship to South Africa for George, at the very least...
...program to build 6,000,000 homes for low-income families over the next decade, which last week was approved by the Senate; an Administration proposal to help industry create 500,000 jobs for the hard-core unemployed; food programs for 256 counties designated as emergency hunger areas; and repeal of a freeze in the number of recipients under the Aid for Dependent Children program...