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...only 25% as much rice. Impressed by such beginnings, Lyndon Johnson last week promised his guest everything he came to Washington to get. The U.S. agreed to: - Provide an added $21 million (to the current $24 million) for such agricultural programs as irrigation, rice growing and rural electrification. - Equip ten army battalions (cost: $20 million) for rural-development projects, especially in central Luzon...
Foreign contractors and advisers proposed roads, schools, power plants, harbors and sewage systems. Shakhbout always refused. In one rare moment of weakness, he agreed to build a modern hospital, then later refused to equip it. Merchants who called on the sheik to ask payment of long-standing debts were thrown out of the palace. When Shakhbout's 600-man police force protested about overdue pay, he fired half the force...
...They experience very little of the pressure of degree requirements, lecture courses, student teachings, and tutorials that face many of the one-year students who will soon confront the alarming realities of the lower schools, and for whom the year at Harvard represents a fantastic cram session that must equip them for their first few years of teaching. And so it is not surprising that it is the one-year people who appraise the situation as being acute, who want things changed now, even though they may not benefit from the change. They do not have the feeling that many...
...Government already spends more than that on welfare. "This 'solution' would leave untouched most of the roots of poverty," said the Council. "Americans want to earn the American standard of living by their own efforts and contributions. It will be far better, even if more difficult, to equip and permit the poor of the nation to produce and to earn the additional $11 billion-and more...
...Senate passed. 79 to 0, an Administration measure authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to set minimum standards for tires, effective in August 1967. The bill would give the Secretary authority to force Detroit to equip its new cars with stronger load-bearing tires and to bar from the road so-called "cheapies," the substandard tires with fancy names that have an unfortunate history of blowouts...