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...well as to freshen up the antipoverty effort. Johnson, who spent last week close to the soil at his Texas ranch, may also attempt to mollify farmers with proposals to encourage collective bargaining on prices for larger producers, greater financial aid for small operators, and new efforts to bolster farm incomes...
Oswald Alone. Specifically, Sparrow zeroes in on the elaborate theoretical situations the critics have constructed to bolster their contention that the assassination was a consummately scripted plot. One such thesis is that a sniper-not necessarily Lee Harvey Oswald-fired at the President from the Texas School Book Depository at the very moment that one or several other assassins fired from the grassy knoll overlooking the highway...
...seems to be trying to stake out part of the student government turf," Henry R. Norr '68, president of the HPC, said yesterday. Norr said he "hopes the HUC finds a way to bolster its role in student affairs...
...attempt to bolster state inspection services, the House of Representatives earlier this year voted 403 to 1 to provide grants of up to half the appropriated cost of state meat-inspection programs that live up to federal standards. In hearings before a Senate agriculture subcommittee, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Joseph M. Montoya proposed federal takeover of any state's inspection program that failed after two or three years to measure up to U.S. Government standards. Going a long step further, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Walter F. Mondale last week was pushing a bill calling for federal...
...Ministry must also resolve regional and country-wide problems. In the Midlands, the North, and Scotland, the Government wants to bolster depressed areas. But in some places like Glasgow, the Government has set up only two towns, both too small to relieve central city congestion. In other regions like Liverpool, the Ministry is building so many new towns, both too small to istry is building so many new towns and expanded cities (about eight) that the construction industry cannot possibly carry the load...