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...Judiciary Committee is presently considering an "omnibus bill," prepared by the Special Commission on Mental Health, which would make this state one of the most progressive in mental health reform...
...auction from the old Hal Roach Studios. Twenty-five hundred miles away, the N.Y.U. film school (enrollment: 250) lacks the advantages of California sunshine and nearby Hollywood expertise. But it does have a topflight staff of 27, headed by Robert Saudek, onetime producer of TV's Omnibus...
Increasingly, "crime in the streets"-an omnibus label encompassing all the wellsprings of urban unrest from ghetto riots to muggings in middle-class neighborhoods-looms, with the possible exception of Viet Nam, as the nation's prime preoccupation in Election Year 1968. Predicted Vice President Hubert Humphrey: "Safe streets will be the No. 1 domestic issue, overshadowing taxes, inflation and all the rest." Added a Humphrey aide: "Another summer of riots could really sink us next fall...
...House promised to trim $2.6 billion from what would have been spent in the current fiscal year, and Congress excised another $1.8 billion. It is possible that some tax increase will be voted next year. - Civil rights proposals ran aground for the second straight year. The Administration's omnibus measure proposed open housing, a ban on jury discrimination and protection for civil rights workers...
...present and prospects for a prosperous future. Its surprise benefactor was the House, which earlier had played the beadle. Much of the House's opposition to the Teacher Corps had centered on the old issue of federal control over local education. After the program was dropped from an omnibus school bill this year, it was sent to an education subcommittee headed by Oregon Democrat Edith Green, a former schoolteacher whose firm ideas about education often differ from those of the Johnson Administration...