Word: monroney
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...When Congress convenes next month, it will see one new proposal-a Senate Aviation Subcommittee call to spend $3 billion immediately, a total of $7 billion by 1975. Having just completed two months of hearings-the first thorough congressional review of airport problems since 1958-Subcommittee Chairman Mike Monroney says: "Every witness conceded that we are in a state of crisis...
Private Problem. Monroney would spend the money on new flight-control systems and more metropolitan-area airports, with a view to handling the future's jumbo superjets and supersonic transports. He defends the plea for earmarked special funds by citing the already overwhelming load of education, poverty programs and the Viet Nam war on the nation's general revenues. As if to underscore that point...
...science and engineering in a mobilization of manpower and brains unparalleled even by the Manhattan Project of World War II. The U.S. space effort is the pacesetter of our total technological advance. As such it is worth the $7 billion it will cost this year. Says Senator Mike Monroney: "Starving technology mortgages the future of our society. Twenty years ago, Britain picked immediate social goals over technological progress. Today it is paying the price, lacking the production base to support either social or technical progress...
Approval of plans to extend the west front of the Capitol was greeted predictably last week. Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania threatened a bill making it a crime to deface the Capitol. Representative Sam Stratton of New York promised to organize a committee of 1,000,000. Senator Mike Monroney of Oklahoma called the plans "inconceivable." William Walton, chairman of Washington's Fine Arts Commission, said: "We have come to the conclusion that to erase this great historic facade would be a national tragedy...
That could be difficult. Long has staunch supporters in the Senate, an admirer in Lyndon Johnson, and the family stomach for infighting-as he showed last January when he defeated Rhode Island's John Pastore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney for the whip's job. This time around, Pastore, at least, has declared himself out of the running. Said he: "I see no reason why Long should not continue as whip along with his other committee assignments. So far as the whip's office is concerned, I was lukewarm to it last year, and today...