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...A.A.M.C.'s proposal, incorporated in a bill sponsored by Rhode Island's Democratic Representative John Fogarty: raise $325 million in the next five years, half to come from the federal Treasury, half from matching funds provided by the schools themselves, for modernization. This way, it is esti mated, 1,100 new freshman places could be created. The Fogarty bill also proposes a $2 billion program to build 20 or more new schools, with the Government putting up two-thirds...
Discontent remains among white-collar workers squeezed by inflation, among peasants oppressed by landlords, among army officers frustrated by inefficient commanders who distribute promotions by bribery and special influence, among young intellectuals who resent police state controls. There is little evident organized opposition to the regime. Yet an esti mated 60% of Iranian students educated abroad never come home because they are grimly aware how few opportunities there are in Iran for young men without connections in high places...
Michigan: Even Democratic State Chairman Neil Staebler admits Ike is ahead by 25,000; other esti mates range up to 200,000. Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams seems safely ahead for re-election against Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo...
Richardson, a journalism graduate of Indiana University, came to TIME after a war career as a soldier-reporter for Yank Magazine in the Far East. He was the Army weekly's first cor respondent in the Pacific, covered the New Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
...outskirts of Beirut at the rate of 4,000 cases a day, and was lapped up so fast that delivery trucks were mobbed by eager buyers even before they could reach stores. Lebanon's Twefik Suleman Assaf, who had spent $650,000 on the new plant, happily esti mated that he would get his investment back in 18 months...