Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said the report, "1,700,000 whites and more than 700,000 nonwhites a year crossed the threshold compared with an average of 840,000 whites and 80,000 nonwhites each year in 1959-64." The statistics, while impressive, may prove porous armor for OEO against its opponents once Congress reconvenes...
...plan. Kentucky Congressman Carl Perkins says that OEO's future will be determined "by its good works between now and next year." Fearing the worst, OEO personnel are leaving the agency at record rates. Sargent Shriver's successor, Bertrand M. Harding, has adopted a conciliatory tone toward Congress but has thus far failed to placate his foes. Next year's budget is even more pinched than the outlays that Shriver fought to increase. Yet even OEO's future is not the key issue The agency's original mandate, after all, was to create programs that...
...There are already 37,000 women volunteers serving in the U.S. armed forces, including more than 800 in Viet Nam. Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, 74, crusty bugbear of millions of draft-age males, recalls an attempt to draft nurses during World War II that was stymied by Congress. Anthropologist Margaret Mead favors conscription of all youth for public service and sees no reason why girls should be exempt. The present draft, she complains, "sets girls and young women apart as if they did not exist...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now ruled otherwise. An IRS investigation, said that court, is the kind of hearing Congress had in mind when it provided for fees. The fact that the Robertses were being investigated is irrelevant. Result: the Robertses, who live in Hollywood, Fla., will have to be paid 10? per mile for the 20-mile trip to and from the IRS office in Fort Lauderdale. And they will get $4 a day for every day the hearing lasts. Presumably, the same balm is now available to anyone who is called in for a going-over...
...postal workers coped with 80 billion pieces of mail. Next year 84 billion pieces will go down the chutes into a system plagued by inadequate buildings, antiquated equipment, eleven militant unions, and a patronage system that makes political plums of the nation's 32,000 postmasterships. Yet Congress is reluctant to reform the system, has cast a cold eye on a recent recommendation by a presidential commission to replace the Post Office Department with a Government-owned corporation...