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Thus the first of three free-food distribution centers in the Seattle area opened just before the New Year; five more will be opened later. The food was supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture after more than five months of pressure from Washington Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had urged that federal food surpluses be sent to Seattle to feed the city's hungry. People on welfare, those collecting Social Security benefits and most of the 30,500 who exhausted their unemployment benefits are eligible for free food under the new program...
When he told the Senate of the Japanese gifts, Magnuson declared: "I have never felt disgraced by my Government. But today I stand here on the floor of the greatest deliberative body in the world in total humiliation." Magnuson was angry because he, Jackson and others had repeatedly requested that surplus food in warehouses and granaries around the country be sent to Seattle. Agriculture and Administration officials, though sympathetic, thought that they were hamstrung by federal regulations...
Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, who wrote the story, is a veteran of 26 TIME covers, dating back to 1962 and encompassing the full range of domestic debate over the war. Magnuson is a former Navy man, having done a two-year hitch before he went on to study journalism at the University of Minnesota in 1948. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Magnuson worked for ten years as a reporter and assistant city editor on the Minneapolis Tribune before coming to TIME in 1960. "Ed has the most professional of gifts: the ability to take an enormous quantity of complicated material...
Reporter-Researcher Deborah Murphy, who has worked on nine cover stories, is as eblouissante as Magnuson is restrained. She came to TIME in 1967 after earning a degree in history at Boston University and working for three months on an Israeli kibbutz on the Lebanese border...
...either unmoved by Nixon's letter or angered at its timing, offered her barely audible no,-the outcome was clear. The final vote was 51 to 46 against spending any more money to develop the aircraft. Colleagues rushed to congratulate Proxmire. Jackson, too, shook his hand. Magnuson remained seated...