Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDUCATION: U.S. Education Com missioner Harold Howe called the $11.6 billion education program (v. $10.8 billion last year) "the largest package of higher-education legislation ever considered by any Congress." But it was hardly revolutionary. Behind the few new programs were drastic cuts in old ones. College-level construction money was slashed from last year's $450 million to $75 million, and library funds were cut from $104 million to $46 million. Government-sponsored scholarships-which last year financed 105,000 freshmen-will support only 63,000 in the coming year...
Died. Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., 60, son of the Michigan Senator and Republican internationalist, who managed his father's campaigns and in 1952 headed the Citizens for Eisenhower Com mittee; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...quarter mile of the Phan Rang/Nha Trang road (the coastal road). Gasoline and rice used to be brought into Dalat by this road. Speculation is that both commodities will be rationed until the road is repaired--and that could take months. That's too bad--just getting used to 'com' (rice) and the lack of buoyancy of landrovers, Vespas, and jeeps on the pot-holed and dirt roads
...about the money that U.S. churches are putting into imposing temples of worship. Last month a group of seminarians from the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland demonstrated in front of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, protesting the $25 million that has been earmarked to com plete the huge basilica. Some Episcopalians have publicly questioned whether their church ought to spend any more money on the impressive Washington Cathedral, which has cost $30 million since it was started 60 years ago, and will need at least $20 million more to finish. Sensitive to this kind...
...main elements in Johnson's com plex bag of restrictions...