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...excited about the idea of one of our prelates halting his building programs in order to use the funds to alleviate the immediate problems of the poor. For too long the ludicrous situation has existed where the poor have trudged from country hovels and slum cellars to worship in million-dollar edifices of stone, marble and gold leaf...
...demands of the campaign include the creation of 2 million federal jobs for the nation's poor, expanded model cities and rent subsidy programs, the establishment of a guaranteed annual income for those unable to work, and immediate relief for hungry people in hundreds of rural counties...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 7--Two million dollars, several hundred speeches, and five weeks of hard campaigning for today's Indiana primary seem to have left the Democratic presidential sweepstakes unchanged...
...turnout in bright summery weather ran over 1.3 million--the largest in Indiana primary history and the largest of any of the presidential preference primaries this year
...reason was money. Pressed by ghetto anger, Congress responded with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Federal funds from the Act and other sources began pouring into the School, sending the Ed School's grant total soaring from one million in 1964 to four million in 1967. Not all the funds were earmarked for urban work, but the urban allotment increased steadily. In 1965, Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Ed School, noted in his annual report: "Education's mecca is now Federal Office Building #6 in Washington...