Word: granting
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...National Institute of Mental Health has awarded an $83,000 grant to the Mental Health Committee of Phillips Brooks House. The funds will be used over a three-year period for future study and service by student volunteers...
...making the grant, the Institute "recognized the tremendous importance of the students' accomplishments" and is supporting continued service by PBH to the Metropolitan State Hospital. In addition, the purpose of the unusual award is to educate students in the field of mental health and to encourage them to pursue it as a career. Tests on volunteers will be conducted by a professional to learn why students participate, what they profit from their work, and the effect it has upon them...
...Provide, through the U.S. Office of Education, technical guidance, limited subsidies, and other aid for schools wrestling with integration problems. ¶ Authorize federal operation of integrated schools for servicemen's children when legal wrangling over segregation closes any schools in areas heavily populated by service people. ¶ Grant the Attorney General power to subpoena records for any election involving federal officeholders; require all state and local officials to keep such records for three years. ¶ Set federal penalties (five years, $5,000) for flight across state lines from any state's investigation of school or church bombing...
Frank Takes Gun still has some vociferous opposition to contend with. Says State Senator Vincent M. Vesley of New Mexico's Grant County: "We are leaving the door open to some religious groups coming in here and possibly saying that marijuana should be used as part of its religious practice." New Mexico's Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote...
Working on a grant from the Carnegie Foundation, and with the assistance of the Educational Testing Service (part of the College Board organization), Dr. Conant visited 55 comprehensive small town high schools in 18 states. His report takes the form of ad hoc suggestions for improving these schools and others which presumably resemble them. The suggestions range from increased time for teaching English composition to requiring that talented students study science and foreign languages...