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...Army's Tripler General Hospital and Queen's Medical Center in response to pleas for blood. Soon after the gutted ship returned to port, a team of damage experts boarded her and, after viewing the gaping deck holes, decided that the seven-year-old, $444-million carrier would have to return to the mainland for extensive repairs. Meanwhile, another team pushed through the charred rubble to try to discover the cause of the fire...
...wealth rests not only on a huge industrial base but it also derives from the greatest inventory of scientific knowledge ever accumulated. Starting from a modest $74 million in 1940, the Federal Government steadily expanded its subsidy of scientific research and development to a peak of $16.7 billion in 1967. Though since cut back because of the Viet Nam war, this investment has added enormously to U.S. resources. In the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, Americans have won 31 out of 63 Nobel prizes. Among the discoveries in pure science attributed to American scholars in the last decade...
...police auxiliaries. Wages could run about $4,000 a year, with another $1,000 for training. Though it is impossible to say how many people would want or need this program, the Government could at least test the response this year by offering 150,000 jobs. Cost: $750 million, a part of which would be offset by reduced welfare costs. If necessary, the target could be boosted in future years...
Private investment, however, will not do away with Government programs, which must continue to expand. In the Model Cities program and the Housing Act of 1968, the Nixon Administration has the tools ? money excepted ? to make real improvement in the lives of millions. Model Cit ies is important because it tackles the slums from all angles, forcing city administrations to plan far more efficiently than they have ever done before. Unfortunately, the program has never been adequately funded. To make it work, Nixon should increase this year's allotment of $625 million to at least a billion, next...
...open up the ghetto and take care of the 100 million population increase expected in the next generation, the Government could encourage the development of at least 100 entirely new towns, varying in population from 100,000 to 500,000. Great Britain has built 24 new towns since World War II, and private developers in the U.S. are already experimenting with the concept. Barriers to private development are enormous, however, and the Government might take the initiative with a New Towns Act and a New Towns Administration within the Department of Housing and Urban Development...