Word: congress
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...85th Congress, in its final hours last week, passed a $3.3 billion foreign aid bill, many were the critics prepared as always to judge the wisdom and virtue of each congressional session by the sheer size of this key appropriation. Such people measure influence abroad by dollars spent, and were thus easy targets for those who regard foreign aid as simple bribery, and are angered every time a beneficiary does not toe the line...
...much has been accomplished. Considering the handicaps of 14 major languages and some 800 dialects, and the world's second largest supply of people (387 million), India is a model of governmental stability: since 1947, it has had the same Prime Minister, Nehru; the same ruling party, the Congress Party; the same governing philosophy, democratic socialism. Unlike most nations from the Mediterranean to the China Sea, India is not seriously threatened by a revolutionary group or a military clique. Communists rule one state, Kerala, but are having troubles there, and have made surprisingly little headway among the mass...
...after eleven long years, the zeal to build a brave new India is cooling. The national leadership, from Nehru down to the lowliest babu, seems more tired than inspired. The ruling Congress Party politicos, in their 60s and 70s, seem reluctant to make way for younger men. Corruption, cynicism and maladministration have dulled the nation's spirit. India still produces more babies than it does food to feed them. (Its population increases at the rate of about 5,000,000 a year, nullifying all gains in agricultural productivity.) Money that could help prop the economy goes into the military...
...less tar than any other cigarette." Of ten major brands in fierce competition for the filter-cigarette business, five claim that their filters filter best-and each backs its claim with an impressive array of tests. The argument over which to believe has interested the Federal Trade Commission and Congress. Says Congressman John A. Blatnik, chairman of a House subcommittee that investigated cigarette advertising: "There are so many claims and counterclaims that we just do not know how much tar and nicotine is involved...
After kicking around Congress for weeks, the Administration's metals subsidy plan (TIME, May 19) finally died last week at the hands of the House of Representatives. Originally put forward to bolster prices in five depressed industries (copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, fluorspar) -and incidentally win support for the President's reciprocal trade program from mining-state Congressmen-the $458 million support program ran into rough going after passing the Senate. Chief reason: many Congressmen felt that the bill would aid mainly those big international producers who are making money anyway and are doing most of the importing that...