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...Fulbright scholarship program, hit by severe Congressional cutbacks last week, may soon be a thing of the past for college undergraduates...
Because a different binational commission oversees the Fulbright exchange in each participating country, the picture for next year was unclear when the 70 per cent reductions became known ten days...
...past American students have won two kinds of grants--full grants, which cover travel, room and board, and tuition; and travel grants, which are used to supplement grants given by foreign countries. Almost all foreign countries, said Fox, have decided to continue their share of the Fulbright grants. In return the United States will make available a small number of travel grants...
...unseat Republican Senator Jacob Javits. When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds for such antiwar Senate candidates as Oregon's Wayne Morse, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, and Ohio's John Gilligan. McCarthy has requested half an hour on television next week, and conceivably may endorse Humphrey at that time. Yet his support, like that of other disenchanted dissidents, may be so tepid as to be valueless...
Almost unnoticed, Congress quietly whacked $13.9 million from the Administration's requested funds for educational and cultural exchanges in August, in the process virtually gutting the famed Fulbright scholar program established in 1946. Fulbright money was reduced 72%, plummeting from $680,000 to $136,000 for Britain alone...