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...Census Bureau last week estimated that out of the 121.5 million Americans old enough to vote this year, 47.5 million will...
House of Parlors. Johnson City (pop. 854) has also helped itself. A new dam on the Pedernales, with storage tanks that have raised the town's water reserves to a quarter-million gallons, was assisted by a federal matching grant after Johnson Citians had voted a $217,000 revenue bond issue to finance their half. Still, Lyndon Johnson gets the credit for most improvements: there is a Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in nearby Kingsland, a Lyndon B. Johnson High School, a Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park, and several roads bearing the presidential name. In the Texas state capital...
...immediate task is to begin raising the $10 million that will be necessary to establish the programs. It remains a question, of course, how effective any such crusade, however passionately intended, can be. Ted Kennedy himself is likely to encounter criticism that the effort is political. Yet the memorial could well serve to help dissipate the miseries of the poor. If it does, it will be true to the finest side of Robert Kennedy...
Investing a Summer. Today the Komsomol claims 23 million members, busy at activities that span the range of Soviet society. Since 1950, more than 1,800,000 Komsomoltsy have given up summer vacations and sometimes whole school years to work on development projects in Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Komsomoltsy helped build the Bratsk hydroelectric station, are now participating in the construction of the Togliatti auto plant, which is scheduled to produce 600,000 Soviet versions of the Italian Fiat a year. Some of the youngsters go out of ideological zeal, some simply for the adventure of getting away...
...deepest cuts have been made in the basic-research programs of the National Science Foundation, which also provided about 8,000 new fellowships for graduate students last year. Congress sliced $95 million from the NSF projects, a 19% cut from last year's total. The research funds of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were left almost intact, but NASA's support of graduate students was almost abandoned. NASA offered 1,335 new fellowships in 1966, but only about 45 this year. The U.S. Office of Education, which had hoped to begin major demonstration projects in new teaching...