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WELFARE. In a bold move that could drastically alter government's attitude and obligations toward the nation's poor, the Administration has proposed scrapping the chaotic jumble of federally assisted state welfare programs. Replacing them would be a uniform federal program based on the pioneering concept that the U.S. should assure every poor family a specified minimum annual income. The family-assistance bill is languishing in the Senate Finance Committee, partly because it was technically deficient as first proposed. It has been attacked by liberal Democrats who want the income level raised. Most Republicans on the committee also...
...words of one of its leading members, Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, the House of Representatives is "ineffective . . . negative ... Its procedures, time-consuming and unwieldy, mask anonymous centers of irresponsible power. Its legislation is often a travesty of what the national welfare requires." Last week, facing an opportunity to alter that image, the House left it largely intact...
...Johnson's perception of a sad pedagogical truth. Any good school is a delicately balanced work of civilization as febrile and vulnerable as a colony of hummingbirds. The private vice of a matron, the loss of a particularly gifted student, the departure of even one fond teacher can alter it decisively-for the worse...
Defense has always been a strong point for Yovicsin's teams, both at Gettysburg and at Harvard, but he seems willing to alter the set-up some what in order to capitalize on the speed of the secondary, make up for a weakness at end, and to compensate for the fact that captain Gary Farneti is an outstanding linebacker on a team which is not blessed with much linebacking talent...
...this qualification as it may, it does not alter the fact that the Center's early work lent objective support to U. S. policy goals. Of the 15 Fellows who visited the Center each year, just less than half were American officials, and the rest were almost exclusively from Britain, France, West Germany, South Korea, Japan, and other nations vital to the success of the Free World Rim Strategy. They had come here to study concrete situations, relevant theories, and game strategies; their purpose was to improve the efficacy of their governments, governments friendly to American-influence and dependent...