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Spring: The Army-McCarthy hearings divert the Senator's energies...
...Additional hospitals and nursing homes will have to be built, thus affecting the construction industry. Medicare, for its part, is likely to affect more than just the old folks. Freed from the burden of paying the medical expenses of parents and older relatives, thousands of couples are expected to divert their earnings to new cars and new houses. Bigger Salaries. Thanks to the Housing Act of 1965, which Johnson also signed last week, millions of Americans will find it easier to buy a new house.. The act not only authorizes $7.5 billion more in federal housing expenditures over...
...State Department remained pretty much unchanged by Kennedy's efforts. Writes Schlesinger: "Kennedy used to divert himself with the dream of establishing a secret office of 30 people or so to run foreign policy while maintaining the State Department as a facade in which people might carry papers from bureau to bureau...
Spring: The Army-McCarthy hearings divert the Senator's energies...
...sneered at Nasser as "the self-proclaimed pioneer of Arab nationalism." Cried Hafez: "What is he waiting for? I went to the first Arab summit 18 months ago under the impression that the conference would lay down plans to liberate Palestine. Instead we were faced with a plan to divert the Jordan waters. Now we are told even this is impossible. Is this the mark of a successful leader...