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...were scanning the House bill that would give Defense Secretary McElroy authority for his Advanced Research Projects Agency. They decided that McElroy's franchise would be too broad. At Johnson's urging, Senate conferees, meeting with the House on the measure, pushed through a provision putting a one-year limit on McElroy's control over nonmilitary research and development...
...account for 90% of the U.S.'s heavy construction. The man behind the code: old (70) Bricklayer Richard James Gray, the B.C.T.D.'s unorthodox president, who shocked his fellow labor leaders at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City, NJ. two months ago by urging a voluntary one-year wage freeze to hold prices down (TIME, Dec. 16). Gray's argument for wage restraint also applies to the anti-featherbedding code: high construction costs are against the interests of building-trades workers, because high costs curb demand, and lower demand means fewer jobs...
...younger DeKoning was also charged with extortion (extracting kickbacks from builders), but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of coercion, drew a one-year suspended sentence...
Eisenhower's proposals would eliminate the one-year acreage reserve practice, and instead encourage the conservation reserve program, through which farmers are paid for taking land out of production for at least three years...
...Force announced yesterday that Air Force ROTC graduates will receive unlimited deferment from active service while studying for an M.A., instead of the previous one-year limit...