Word: labor
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...largely ignored his homilies. Last week the House passed an Agriculture Department appropriation bill, 366 to 23, that included $141 million more for the school-lunch and milk programs than the President had requested. Then the House Appropriations Committee added an extra $489 million to the bill funding Labor and Health, Education & Welfare programs. The Senate approved a military authorization measure containing $243 million for weapons projects that the Defense Department does not want. And the House Armed Services Committee voted an unrequested military pay increase of $357 million a year...
That committee's only notable cut in the Labor-HEW measure last week was the unkindest: it eliminated $31 million sought by the President for his cherished proposal to create a national Teachers Corps to work in high-poverty areas. The move reflected a widespread sentiment in Congress that economies, if any, should trim the new Great Society ventures rather than successful existing programs. Even the President's major congressional victory of the week, the Senate's grudging passage of a minuscule $12 million appropriation to launch a Great Society rent-subsidy program, was achieved only with...
...have been killed or kidnaped by the Viet Cong while trying to go about their civilian duties. Another 9,000 Vietnamese peasants were killed or kidnaped last year alone, though they had no connection whatsoever with the government. The kidnaped are usually forced into Viet Cong military service or labor gangs. The dead are those who refuse-and die undocumented...
Died. Patrick Vincent McNamara, 71, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator since 1955, a genial Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
From June until January we went to school for half the day and the other half was spent working with our students to build a new school. The first two months our spirits were high, the weather was relatively cool, and there was almost no visible evidence of our labor. We built a gravel road, dug holes in the ground for building supports, and made the building supports out of steel rods and steel rings...