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WASHINGTON, April 9--In a closed session today, the House Armed Services Committee decided to back down from its original stand on Universal Military Service and Training. It voted to amend the Administration bill now on the House floor so that any U.M.S.T. plans will have to be passed by Congress after they are prepared by the President's Commissioners...
...biggest U.S. companies, or between them and other big oil companies. But on closer inspection FTC said it found that Standard and Socony were linked, through common affiliates, to each other and to almost every other major oil company. ^ To break up interlocking directorates, Chairman Mead wants Congress to amend the Clayton Act, giving the FTC power to act in cases and situations not now covered...
...State legislative committee yesterday voted to amend the Massachusetts Constitution to permit voting by 18-year-olds. The bill now goes to the House where it has a good chance of passing. The feeling seems to be that if a man is old enough to fight he is also old enough to vote. Five members, all Republicans, of the 15-man committee on Constitutional Law voted against the measure...
...Corporation decided in April, when the resolution to amend the Act first came before Congress, that it would give its employees the option of entering the program...
Numbers one and two would amend the constitution: the first to establish an order of succession to the governorship between election and inauguration, the second to increase the number of signatures required under the initiative and referendum rule for putting a question on the ballot. The amendemnt would make this number about 60,000 instead of the present...