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...senators. The President, in his initial message on June 20, and the Attorney General, in testimony this week before the House Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees, have vigorously defended the need for far-reaching legislation. Thus far they have indicated they will compromise on only one point in the omnibus bill, the controversial Title II section which would eliminate discrimination in privately-owned public accomodations 'substantially' involved in inter-state commerce...
...Congress of the United States to join with the executive and judicial branches in making it clear to all that race has no place in American life or law ... I am proposing that the Congress stay in session this year until it has enacted-preferably as a single omnibus bill-the most responsible, reasonable and urgently needed solutions which should be acceptable to all fair-minded...
...weeks Congress has stalled the Administration's $5.3 billion omnibus education bill, containing aid for everyone from preliterate tots to illiterate adults. Last week the White House wearily agreed to let Congress unwrap the package and choose among the goodies. Prognosis: passage for perhaps $1.2 billion in aid for college construction, but probable death for aid to public schools...
Pusey criticized the President for presenting his aid plan in an omnibus bill covering education "from kindergarten to college." The Congress has since split the bill into separate grants, and Pusey said he was "glad of this action...
...Margaret R. Ball, his chief lab technician, as coauthor. Despite its unimpressive size and its coldly scientific title, the book became a surgical landmark. And it was only a beginning. What Moore calls his "big blue book" appeared in 1959. Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient, a six-pound omnibus of 1,011 pages, would be monument enough for most men; it is a basic and irreplaceable text for modern surgeons. But Moore is still enlarging the dimensions of his monument. W. B. Saunders Co. has just published The Body Cell Mass and Its Supporting Environment (helpfully subtitled "Body Composition...