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...Democratic leadership had been confident that it had the votes to override Romney vetoes on three key bills: 1) a measure extending $4,000,000 in homestead tax exemptions to disabled Michigan war veterans and their widows; 2) a $1,200,000 appropriation for eight money-starved state colleges; and 3) a $6,000,000 rent-subsidy program for the elderly. Romney insisted that tax relief for veterans should be based on individual need and disability, objected to the school appropriation on the grounds that it should await completion of an exhaustive study of Michigan's overloaded college system...
...Senator Harry ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, was settling comfortably into the handsome, five-room office suite that he'd inherited along with Papa Byrd's title last month, in stalked Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, 65. The senior Senator prowled through the Virginian's homestead, admired the view of the Capitol, and then announced that he would foreclose the mortgage. "I'd like to have the office," rumbled Morse, who stands on the eighth rung from the top in Senate seniority and can claim nearly any office he chooses. Groaned one of Little Harry...
...heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...
...significance. One who does is Ford Foundation's Malcolm Moos, Eisenhower's best speechwriter and a man who comes perhaps closer than anyone today to fulfilling the function of Republican ''thinker." Says Moos: "The great urban areas represent places which the Republican Party can homestead. Let's take the carbon monoxide out of the air, let's solve the water shortage, let's clean up the rivers, let's move against corruption and crime, and let's put our schools in shape. The most conspicuous political failure...
Such was the dominant belief until recently in the nation of free enterprise, rugged individualism and the Homestead Act. Only when the frontier was gone did city, state and eventually federal relief become a principal weapon against poverty. The force that most fundamentally changed the nature of poverty was the machine. In the short run, the industrial revolution only caused bigger and worse poverty by creating a new pauperized proletariat; in the long run, it lent reality to the Utopian dream of universal abundance by almost infinitely multiplying the once strictly limited productive capacity of human hands and brains...