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...Amend the Smith Act so as to counteract the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation of the words "organize" and "advocate" that upset the basis of the Federal Government's prosecution of active Communists (TIME, July 1, 1957). Such amendment is necessary, said the recommendations, "so that this nation need not be forced to delay the invoking of the judicial process until such time as the damage has already been wrought...
Federal assistance to higher education, especially long-term, low-interest loans, is welcome. As colleges are forced to expand, their financial aid resources are spread thinner and thinner. But, to prevent the Program from becoming a farce, Congress should amend the Act to provide a workable method for determining actual financial need, while insuring colleges against unwanted Federal control...
...voted down efforts by Commissioners Milton Cook and David Mintz to amend or postpone approval of the measure. Mintz questioned whether state support of the project was a proper use of public funds and urged a reexamination on this score...
...Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress to amend the Employment Act of 1946 by adding "reasonable price stability" to the other economic goals-"maximum production, employment and purchasing power"-that the Federal Government is pledged to foster. "An indispensable condition for achieving vigorous and continuing economic growth," said the President, "is firm confidence that the value of the dollar...
...Quite frankly," he told Parliament, "my government accepted the constitution as drawn up in the United Kingdom with grave misgivings." He introduced a bill that would enable the government to amend key clauses of the constitution, not by a two-thirds majority in both Parliament and the regional assemblies, but by a simple majority of the Parliament alone, where he controls 80 out of 104 seats. The present arrangement, he blandly explained, made it much too easy for anyone "to challenge much of the legislation required for social improvement and industrial development on the grounds that it is contrary...