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...HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE. Federal outlays for medical research increased more than fourfold. The National Defense Education Act of 1958, "a milestone in the history of American education," provided federal funds to improve school curriculums, train additional teachers and furnish scholarships for bright youngsters whose parents cannot afford to send them to college. Social security coverage was broadened to include an additional n million persons...
...John H. ("Savvy") Sides, whose exceptionally flexible and mobile carrier striking force is best adapted of all the services to the varied challenges of the new Asian frontier. Sides's big problem is ships. He needs more-more big carriers, more guided-missile cruisers, more modernized destroyers-to furnish Vice Admiral Charles ("Don") Griffin's Seventh Fleet with the firepower it needs. Vice Admiral Charles L. Melson's First Fleet, based in San Diego, is responsible for overhaul and training of units which may be assigned to Don Griffin's Seventh Fleet...
Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols blamed the Federal Government for the radon menace. State attempts to improve working conditions in the mines, said McNichols, have been handicapped by the government's reluctance to furnish information on the dangers of radiation. He charged that the Atomic Energy Commission has forced the price of uranium so low that small mine operators cannot afford proper safeguards and ventilation for their miners...
...Purpose. Murray poses his question cogently: "Can we or can we not achieve a successful conduct of our national affairs, foreign and domestic, in the absence of a consensus that will set our purposes, furnish a standard of judgment on policies, and establish the proper conditions for political dialogue?" Anti-Communism is a poor substitute. If Communism should vanish overnight, he says, Americans would still
...Africa's first TV station and Nigeria's first university are in the Western capital of Ibadan, where three-quarters of a million people cluster noisily under a sea of tin roofs. Between them, the Yoruba West and bustling Ibo East dominate Nigeria's commerce and furnish most of the country's bureaucrats. But the real weight of the nation rests on the top of the Y. Here, in the Northern Region, live close to 20 million people, mostly Moslems, who still remember the jihad (holy war), in which, 156 years ago, the Fulani horsemen...