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...Wilson's decision to call elections may well have been that current economic cheeriness may ebb by fall, particularly if Wall Street continues to behave so badly. Inevitably, price increases will follow those glittering wage hikes. April cost-of-living figures, released last week, showed a 2% rise, sharpest for any month in two years. Retail price increases this year will run about 7%. Unemployment, at 2.5% as of last week, is the highest for any May since 1940. In addition, there was the prospect that renewed troubles this summer in Northern Ireland would embarrass Wilson. Until Wilson...
...sharpest attack on Masters and Johnson centers on their therapeutic use of what they euphemistically call "partner surrogates" for 41 single men who were accepted by the foundation for treatment. One-third of these patients had once been married; sexual inadequacy was a key factor in their divorces. Even though the philosophy of the clinic is treatment within the marriage context, Masters and Johnson decided to accept these patients...
...more significant, Premier Aleksei Kosygin called the first press conference held by a Kremlin leader in Moscow since Nikita Khrushchev's famous U-2 spy-plane disclosure in 1960. Though he made no suggestion of direct Soviet involvement in Indochina, Kosygin harshly upbraided the U.S. and launched the sharpest personal attack on Nixon to date by a Russian leader. The Soviet Premier, whose appearance was carried live on Russian television, charged that the widening of the war raised serious questions. "What is the value of international agreements, which the United States is or intends to be a party...
Unemployment is climbing faster than the President had wished; it jumped from 4.4% of the labor force in March to 4.8% last month, the sharpest rise in a decade. The President's hope for a budget surplus is disappearing, a victim of the decline in tax collections, federal pay raises and the Cambodian invasion. Nixon tried to help out the stock market by making some bullish remarks, and the Federal Reserve chipped in last week by reducing margin requirements from 80% to 65%. Yet stocks continued to hover close to the low that they reached after the assassination...
...expert staff, C.N.H.l. has been thrashing out details in subcommittees for more than a year. Their final proposal will be introduced by Senators Yarborough of Texas and Edward Kennedy, probably within a month. Most comprehensive of all the plans so far formulated, it is certain to arouse the sharpest controversy. According to Staff Di rector Max Fine, the aim is to attack the health crisis on four fronts: manpower shortages, rising costs, disorganization and uneven quality. Estimated cost (undoubtedly optimistic): $40 billion annually, with $24 billion to be raised by a 51% payroll tax shared by employers and employees...