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...were scattered among thousands of outposts in the 50 states and numerous foreign countries. The number of farms and farmers in the U.S. keeps declining year after year-but the number of Agriculture Department employees keeps right on growing. In the House of Representatives last year, Michigan Republican Robert Griffin jokingly offered an amendment to ensure that "the total number of employees in the Department of Agriculture shall at no time exceed the number of farmers in America." It lost-but only...
...surprising than Georgia's backlog of woes, though, is that even before the 1959 scandal it had started an earnest effort to save its citizens from Milledgeville. Psychiatric clinics were set up in general hospitals for prompt and intensive treatment of the mentally ill, and outgoing Governor Marvin Griffin put aside $300,000 in surplus funds to get the movement rolling...
Moderates in North Carolina and Tennessee have been a decisive force instate elections for some time. In Georgia, the moderate candidate, Carl Sanders, defeated conservative former Governor Marvin Griffin in the 1962 gubernatorial lections and moderate-turned-lately Peter Zack Geer was elected lieutenant governor. The moderates at the same elections aided in the removal of the incumbent and arch-conservative U.S. Congressman James C. Davis, replacing him with liberal Charles Weltner...
...Griffin said that the Committee's final report will show that demand for freshman seminars has leveled off in the past two years, and that there is little possibility of a continuously expanding program...
...seminar program should continue to enroll no more than one quarter to one third of the freshman class," Griffin said, "and at that rate financial resources and Faculty interest will not be a problem...