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...finish its work. A chorus of protest swept the chamber. In the House, California Democrat Chet Holifield cried: "This House should adjourn!" Congressmen cheered and clapped in agreement. In such a mood of rebellion, the lawmakers last week spurned the pleas of President Johnson and finally adjourned the 88th Congress...
...second half of the 88th enacted the most far-ranging civil rights bill in history. It approved an $11½ billion federal income tax cut, the biggest ever, as a means to spur the economy. It set up a program of federal-state cooperation in tackling the mass transportation problems that threaten to stifle metropolitan areas, set aside some 9,000,000 acres of wilderness for future recreation and conservation. It provided federal grants to build higher education facilities, created a program to retrain employees displaced by automation. It gave top executives in Government new incentives to remain in public...
...bill was the last in a series of important education bills to be passed by the 88th Congress and the 23rd of President Johnson's 30 "must" bills, which he submitted in June...
TRIPLE CROWN-THE PREAKNESS (CBS, 5:30-6 p.m.). The 88th running of the Preakness, from Baltimore...
...legislative ship of state was moving right along last week, and who should be manning the oars but the long-reluctant leaders of the 88th Congress. The craft was, of course, skippered by Lyndon Johnson...