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...attack on adult illiteracy. "Functional illiterates" in the U.S.-those adults with fewer than five years of schooling-numbered 7.8 million in 1959, and form the hard core of the unemployed. A fiveyear, $50 million program would help colleges train teachers to deal with the problem, give aid to states for the school districts where the illiterates are clustered...
...Miami's rain-drenched Orange Bowl, Louisiana State's hard-rushing linemen blocked two Colorado punts, routed the outmanned Westerners 25-7. Perhaps the biggest winner of all was L.S.U. Coach Paul Dietze, who flew home to Baton Rouge after the game ready to accept a fiveyear, $100,000 contract offer from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...
Convinced that foreign aid cannot be fully effective so long as it remains on a hand-to-mouth, year-by-year basis, President Kennedy had thrown all his resources into an effort for a fiveyear, $8.8 billion program, with authorization to borrow the money from the U.S. Treasury rather than return to Congress each year for appropriations. Last week's conference committee did "authorize" a $7.2 billion foreign aid program for the next five years. return to the Congress each year for the appropriations that would make the authority meaningful. This, as the Administration well knew, meant that foreign...
...Began debate in the Senate on President Kennedy's $4.4 billion foreign aid bill. The key issue: the President's "fiveyear plan" giving the Administration borrowing authority to make longer-term commitments to needy nations. Opening the debate with an impassioned plea for approval of the Kennedy program. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas said that opposition to the proposal "just proves that we still are not very far away from tribal society. The only thing we ever do with enthusiasm is getting ready to bash somebody in the snoot...
...drug (which Dr. Terry did not name) that has produced some encouraging "fiveyear cures" in choriocarcinoma is methotrexate. Its effectiveness in some forms of leukemia and choriocarcinoma has been known for years (TIME cover, July 27, 1959). So has the fact that methotrexate, a highly poisonous substance, is of no value against other cancers unless special techniques of administration are used. And these are not generally available...