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Amending a routine financing measure, the House lopped between $5 billion and $8 billion off projected federal spending in the current fiscal year. The exact amount was impossible to reckon because of massive loopholes embodied in overlapping amendments approved by the House and because the actual amount of war expenditures is uncertain. The first amendment, proposed by Mississippi Democrat Jamie Whitten, would limit spending for many activities to last year's level. But the Viet Nam war and a number of domestic programs such as highway construction and Medicare were specifically exempted from the ceiling. The second amendment...
...rifleman adjusted his sight. Slowly he stretched out into a prone firing position; he rested his rifle barrel on his helmet and sighted through the scope, allowing just enough Kentucky windage to compensate for the breeze. Then he began the gentle, steady trigger pull of the expert marksman. The exact moment of firing came as a surprise-which it often does when a good rifleman has squeezed off a proper shot...
...study is expected to take at least six months; its exact cost has not yet been determined. A "technical committee" is now planning the study; it will report to the overseeing committee within a month. After that, the city will name consultants to do the actual work of the study. Finally, the overseeing committee will evaluate the conclusions reached by the consultants...
...Auckland stringer, Bob Gilmore, joined in. The Hepworths found a place in Auckland. ¶When we did our Gemini rendezvous cover at the end of 1965, NASA's Director of Flight Operations, Chris Kraft, found the cover diagram of the maneuver by Cartographer Robert M. Chapin Jr. so exact that he asked us for copies of the original work. He has since been using them to explain the historic mission to NASA's own staff and to aerospace contractors. ¶ In our cover story on "French Chef" Julia Child (Nov. 25, 1966) we used a picture...
...exact date for the match has not yet been set since it depends largely on the free time of the Harvard...