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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel in her Children of Violence series, the author takes her heroine, Martha Quest, from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
...blind and the disabled would continue unchanged, except that benefits would be increased. A uniform floor of $65 per month for all such recipients would be established, with the Treasury chipping in 25% of the cost in excess of $65. The largest and most controversial segment of the present welfare system-aid to families with dependent children (AFDC)-would be eliminated...
From 1950 to 1966 rebates rates were ten and eight per cent. However, in he fiscal year ending July 1, 1967, rates were cut to the present level of eight and six per cent
However, since either party may terminate the present contract after one year's notification, the Secretary of Army will terminate the program by the end of the coming academic year, according to Brigadier General C. P. Hannum...
...high-ranking Air Force official said that he had approached the matter informally with the House Armed Services Committee, but that a present there was no need for such a unit. He explained that the Air Force currently has programs at 172 schools other than Harvard, while 100 more have applied for the program...