Word: localize
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Outmoded System. The amendments affect the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (A.F.D.C.), the largest category of relief financed by federal, state and local funds. They require each state to determine the proportion of its children receiving such benefits as of this month and to limit the use of federal money in the future to this fraction. Because the poor bear more children than the affluent, the proportion of needy minors is estimated to be increasing from 4.7% now to 5% in 1970. Therefore states will either have to make eligibility rules more stringent, reduce the load by other...
...Year's Day when Clive Haupt and his bride of three months went with friends to Fish Hoek Beach. Haupt played pickup rugby, then lay down to rest. Suddenly a friend called that Haupt was ill, with frothy blood coming from his mouth. From a local hospital, he was shuttled fast to the better-equipped Victoria Hospital, where doctors concluded that he had suffered a stroke-a massive brain hemorrhage. They saw little hope that he could survive. But since Haupt had apparently been fit, his heart was probably in good condition, so they telephoned the surgeons at Groote...
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and state and local police are still searching for the two master holdup artists who knocked over the Harvard Trust Company Monday...
Washington attorney Joe Rauh, who acted as counsel for Negro challengers in '64, is taking a leading hand in behind-the-scenes work to put together the challenges in both states. In Alabama, the likely organizers include former state attorney general Richmond Flowers, who won the lasting love of local Negroes by seeking their votes in his unsuccessful gubernatorial fight against Lurleen Wallace. He will be working closely with leaders of the only state-wide Negro political organization, which is dedicated to supporting the national party...
Should they succeed, the ecstatic delegates are more than likely to urge local Negroes to stay home and watch the festivities on TV. They will not want anyone tinkering with the convention that seated them. The fact is, the Southern insurgent wing of the Democratic party ardently supports Johnson...