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Weighing most oppressively on Congress' collective conscience is the problem of campaign expenses. Unless he is a millionaire many times over, the average member of Congress (annual salary: $30,000) simply cannot afford, on his own, the expense of getting elected or re-elected these days. Things have almost reached the point indicated by England's turn-of-the-century poet laureate, Alfred Austin, who wrote...
Over the next decade, the agency estimates, landings and takeoffs at airports controlled by FAA towers will triple?from more than 41 million in 1966 to 139 million. During the same interval, the annual number of flights by instrument rules will grow from 5.2 million to 12.4 million. The number of U.S. commercial airliners will increase from 2,124 to 3,500. Airline business will soar from 114 million passengers and 76 billion passenger-miles in 1966 to 352 million passengers and 266 billion passenger-miles in 1977. The general aviation fleet of business and pleasure craft will increase from...
Although the Ford Foundation complained that U.S. higher education was not getting enough contributions from private sources, the annual survey of donations to 50 major colleges and universities by the John Price Jones Co., Inc., a Manhattan fund-raising firm, indicated that individuals and corporations gave a record $211,213,000 in 1965-66. Total donations which also included bequests and foundation grants, were down slightly from the previous year...
...first annual report since moving to Ford from the White House, President McGeorge Bundy last week served notice that the foundation was cutting back its grants from the current annual rate of $362 million to around $200 million, which would still be about $40 million in excess of this year's estimated income. Those who have benefited most from Ford generosity-U.S. colleges and universities-will be hardest hit, though they still remain high on the foundation's list of priorities. One program that may end is the matching of capital grants, under which 80 colleges...
...Plums in Sight. For some time, North American has been fretting about its dependence on Government contracts, which now account for more than 95% of its business. Though space and Pentagon orders have swollen annual sales beyond $2 billion for the past three years, in 1965 the company lost its No. 1 spot to rival Boeing, which also happened to be fat with commercial orders. If and when the supersonic-transport program gets under way, North American will assemble wing sections for the prime contractor (Boeing again), but so far its only sizable commercial airframe business is building Sabreliner corporate...