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...seven months the bill had wallowed in the House Ways and Means Committee, finally emerged and was passed by the House, with significant changes from Kennedy's original version. Now, at last, it was before Senator Harry Byrd's Finance Committee. But Virginia's Byrd is an all-out foe of cutting taxes without cutting federal spending, which the Administration definitely does not propose. So the measure is destined for more rough, slow sledding...
...have time to do things the right way, and the wrong-but-fast way is invariably the most expensive. Instead of hiring only the best technicians, engineers, and research assisstants, NASA must hire everyone available and train people for jobs in which they may later prove incompetent, in the all-out effort to solve problems quickly. The space and defense effort now employs three-fourths of the scientific community, depriving other fields of valuable minds and drawing scientists away from projects which might technically, medically, or otherwise advance...
Charles Seymour was a vigorous internationalist in support of all-out aid to Britain, Brewster argued for the America Firsters in college debates. But when the U.S. went to war, Brewster promptly joined the Navy and became a fighter pilot...
...robberies, hijackings, kidnapings and bombings. Through it all, Betancourt kept a tight rein on his temper; he regarded the F.A.L.N. as a civil police matter, an annoyance to be handled by ordinary criminal procedure. But last week, the F.A.L.N. outdid itself: it took on the army, and Betancourt swiftly declared all-out war against Venezuela's Communists...
President Bunting explained that about $2 million more will have to be raised before any definite plans can be made. She added that Radcliffe intends "to seek money from potential donors of large amounts rather than conduct an all-out drive in which everyone gives a little...