Word: effective
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...education bills costing far more than the $4.4 billion the President requested. The Senate version, passed by a 54-to-16 vote, totaled $6.4 billion; the House bill, approved 237 to 97, would cost $5.7 billion. Both in effect will extend 1965's aid-to-education bill through June 1968, providing grants for nearly all of the nation's 26,000 school districts, with emphasis on areas that have large enrollments of children from poverty-stricken families...
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield confesses: "Frankly, I prefer private letters." The National Association of Manufacturers finds it far more effective, says a spokesman, "to send the head of one member plant into the office of a Senator than to send him a petition full of names of all the heads of our member plants." Of campus-circulated petitions, Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, a confirmed non-signer, says: "I think they have no effect whatsoever except to let people blow off steam. In the past, the academic community was more responsible and therefore more effective...
...events of the week had a visible effect on Sukarno. Although he still refused to condemn the Communists, he was nervous enough to allow in a speech to his countrymen that, in a general way, what had happened last October had been "treason...
Tshombe and the Portuguese government denied everything, but none of the disclaimers had any effect. Still ranting about "the satanic plans of the enemies of our country," Mobutu last week broke relations with Portugal and ordered all foreign countries, friend and foe alike, to close their consulates in the Congo's interior...
...matter how ordinary the event, no matter how stirring the picture, the news that Cronkite and his colleagues bring into the American home always carries a kind of subliminal authority. The effect can be traced, says Cronkite, to the almost embarrassing intimacy of the camera. Even more important, he says, everything the viewer sees and hears comes to him on what amounts to an electronic front page. What the managing editor chooses for him, he cannot avoid. He cannot skip from headline to headline and browse among stories. They are all read aloud, right to the end. "There...