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...recent weeks Washington's attitude has altered. Alarmed by the possibility of a vast famine that could kill thousands of Biafra's 7,000,000 people in the next three months, the Administration has decided on a more active role, one that may funnel $20 million more in relief into Biafra by the end of the fiscal year...
Brigham said that the exact cost of the proposed projects was not yet certain, although HUD has already earmarked $870,000 to pay for any programs in the area not covered by other Federal funding. Since the Model Cities program tries to funnel Federal money from diverse agencies into one area, the ultimate cost of the first year program--if Washington gives Cambridge all the money it wants--will probably be several times the $870,000 figure, Brigham said...
...core of the act--Title I--was intended to funnel Federal funds into the schools of the nation's poverty areas. But now, after three years have passed and about three billion dollars have been distributed to local school districts under the title, its effect on the children it was supposed to help remains uncertain...
...reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines are still likely to be the fastest racers on the track. The new cars are chiselnosed, so low to the ground that the only part of the body higher than the tires is the exhaust funnel located be hind the driver's head. And one source close to Granatelli says that this year's models will make last year's STP Special -which qualified for the 500 at 166 m.p.h.-"look like a Model...
...Haiphong, which took some of the heaviest bombing of the war. For five straight days, the whine of jets over Hanoi was almost monotonous. U.S. planes struck at a torpedo-boat base, an army barracks, storage depots, power plants, and two bridges over which supply trains from China funnel into Hanoi. Foreign seamen aboard ships anchored off Haiphong sat on the bridges with their feet on the railing watching duels between planes and ack-ack batteries...