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...call it a Dillon bill. This is the bill of the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma, the very able uncrowned King of the Senate, Rob ert S. Kerr." Snarled Lines. Bob Kerr, second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, took over the floor management of the bill after Chairman Harry Byrd. patriarch of Democratic conservatism, objected to the revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery. In eight days of slashing, sarcastic debate. Kerr beat off every significant attempt to alter the bill. In a hopeless snarl of party lines, such Democratic...
...There's nobody in this room who can tell me about hard times-because I've seen them," said West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. The Senator explained that his mother had died when he was ten months old and that he was raised by penniless foster parents, who "never took five cents" in welfare funds. "Some people may think we don't know what it is to wear tennis shoes in the snow. I went from one end of the community to the other with a little wagon gathering up scraps saved...
...Byrd* was defending himself against charges that, as chairman of a subcommittee investigating welfare fraud in the District of Columbia, he was plucking bread from the mouths of women and children. As Byrd's probe ended last week, it was apparent that some of those women and children had been eating pretty high...
...House. Washington's welfare payments have bloated from $9,500,000 to $21,300,000 in the past seven years, and Byrd wanted to find out why. In random sampling, investigators discovered that many families on relief had one TV set and that several had two. At one appliance store at least four persons on relief were buying expensive stereophonic phonograph sets on time. Of the cases reviewed, investigators found that 78% of the persons on general relief were really ineligible for aid, as were 57% of the mothers receiving checks for dependent children. Some case studies: A mother...
THIS week it is the Berlin wall. 1 Last week it was the flight of Russia's space twins. Fortnight ago, it was Senator Byrd's family tree. Week after week, Robert M. Chapin Jr. seeks vivid new pictorial ways to illustrate the news. He has been doing it for 25 years for TIME. Beginning as a one-man operation, Chapin now has a staff of six, including Artists Vincent Puglisi and Jere Donovan, to turn out an average of six to eight maps, charts, drawings and diagrams weekly. A few years back, Walter W. Ristow...