Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacking the aid program with unprecedented energy. Bell was brought to A.I.D. early this year after a successful tenure as Director of the Bureau of the Budget. He has discovered he "is not his own master" in the job. He has been forced to spend time pleading with Congressmen, entertaining visitors, and settling issues with foreign ambassadors...
...Johnson's pledged recommitment to space exploration, foreign aid, aid to education, medicare and other federal programs with high price tags. In North Carolina, the Greensboro Daily News counseled Congress and the nation not to be stampeded into precipitate action. "Few Americans (and, we imagine, still fewer Congressmen) will feel that even the late President's martyrdom imposes on them the outright duty of acclaiming or voting for what a few days ago they denounced and worked against...
...test in the weightless environment of space. But the crucial first shot ended in naming failure before the engines could ignite. Just 55 seconds after liftoff, a weather shield tore loose, followed by a blazing rupture in a hydrogen fuel tank. With Centaur already 18 months behind schedule and Congressmen crying inept management NASA shifted the program from Marshall Space Flight Center, where Wernher von Braun's team was primarily concerned with the Saturn program, to the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. There tough-minded Director Abe Silverstein, 55, took charge...
...When the State Department was threatening to cut its foreign aid allotment to Spain, Madrid's Ambassador Antonio Garrigues appealed to Catholic Congressmen he had cultivated at luncheons and dinners, persuaded them to help block...
...Ever since the Supreme Court outlawed prayer and Bible reading in public schools, some Congressmen have felt that the nine Justices needed a little reminder that the nation-and the court -was still subject to a higher authority. One method proposed by South Carolina Democrat Robert T. Ashmore, in a bill before the House, is to inscribe the words "In God We Trust" on the marble frieze above the Supreme Court bench...