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...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...
...house the Humphreys need. Senator George Smathers has introduced a bill that would make a vice-presidential residence out of Admiral's House, a 14-room mansion just off Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, now assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations. Another bill, by Democrat Mike Monroney, would create a three-member commission, give it $1,000,000 to buy or build an appropriate house...
...spokesman for the Senate's pro-inflation bloc who early in the Depression vainly waged a campaign to force unlimited currency upon the nation, thereafter remained a cantankerous critic of Administration policies from public power to Marshall aid, was finally defeated in the 1950 primary by Congressman Mike Monroney shortly after being exposed for trading in the cotton commodities market; of pneumonia; in Lawton, Okla...