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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest single boost was an amendment doubling the previously authorized $290 million in federal grants for construction of graduate and undergraduate facilities. As approved by Powell's committee after only 20 minutes of debate, the 1965 Higher Education Act would cost $624.5 million in its first year. Its main provisions are four separate five-year programs calling...
...dined off gold-rimmed plates. Away from the banquet table things went equally well. In less than 48 hours the two Arab potentates reached full agreement, thus enabling Nasser to leave on schedule for his current visit to the Soviet Union. The announcement was made in the chandeliered main hall of the palace, where the marble floor is carpeted in green-the color of hope. Once the agreement was signed, tall, sinewy Feisal embraced his old foe and new-found friend and kissed Nasser on both cheeks...
...distinctly low key so far, He is currently riding around on a campaign train that, by election time, will have traveled 12,500 miles; he will have visited 44 major cities and delivered no fewer than 75 speeches and 250 curbside pep talks. He has stuck largely to such main issues as prices, education, and health-avoiding rough personal attacks on his opponent...
...million to $58 million, between 1957 and 1962, and spent a total of $211 million. In the succeeding six-year period, from 1963 through 1968, they will have tripled that amount to $650 million. The nation's largest library, the Library of Congress, has just renovated its main reading room at a cost...
Swatting a Gnat. So far, the main drawback is the legal requirement of a judge-signed warrant for each scofflaw. In a big city, no prowl car can possibly lug enough warrants. But police need no warrant to arrest anyone whom they reasonably believe to have committed a felony...