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...work done. The President appointed an eight-man watchdog committee, headed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr., to examine and report on the work of the U.S. intelligence agencies. He sent to Congress a message proposing a fiveyear, $2 billion federal aid program for public-school construction. He asked Congress to appropriate $60 million for flood relief. He accepted the resignation of Treasury Under Secretary H. Chapman Rose, who is returning to his Cleveland law practice. He welcomed back Aide Bernard Shanley, who had left the White House staff briefly during the President's illness...
Wrote Dr. George S. Reamey, the editor of the Virginia Methodist Advocate: "Our public-school system needs stronger protection. We are in danger of throwing out the baby with the bath...
...improved program for federal aid to public-school construction. Probable method: federal purchase of state-issued building bonds, plus cash grants totaling considerably more than the Administration's previous proposal of $200 million over a three-year period...
...Commission hammered out a compromise designed to head off integration in communities that oppose it, and permit it in others. Even so, the plan was meeting unexpected opposition. Reason: quite apart from its cautious sabotage of the Supreme Court order, many Virginians thought the Gray plan might wreck their public-school system...
...what it thinks the state must do in the years to come. By 1960 New York can expect an addition of some 713,000 students in all schools and colleges to the present total of 3,394,000. It will need at least 25,000 new classrooms, 51,000 public-school teachers, 10,000 college teachers. ¶Warned Editor Jonathan W. Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer at the University of Kentucky's annual education conference: "The most tragic proposal ever made in a presumably intelligent land is that the South solve the great public problem of desegregation...