Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House-Senate conference committee to knock out Hartke's amendment. But Prouty's pet, though watered down, remained. As finally approved by the conference, it would 1) provide $35 monthly for individuals, $52.50 for couples; 2) benefit only persons who are 72 or older or who reach that age by Jan. 1, 1968, and are not receiving a specified amount of Government assistance from other sources; and 3) finance the plan by borrowing from social security trust funds, so as not to cut into the tax bill's estimated revenue. Thus patched up, the bill went back...
...notion of electing the poor to local community-action boards had laid a costly egg. In Los Angeles recently, fewer than 1% of those eligible voted, bringing the cost per ballot cast to $22.94. Shriver also conceded that programs in some cities had been delayed because of failure to reach agreement with local officials or plain bad judgement. In Harlem, the OEO spent $40,000 to enable Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones to stage what Shriver described-mildly-as "vile racist plays in vile gutter language unfit for the youngsters in the audience...
Hetherington, to reach the finals, downed Crimson sophomore Jose Gonzalez, 3-0 and freshman ace Anil Nayar, 3-2, in the semifinals...
Originally, Leary was arrested on three counts; the charge of smuggling marijuana was dropped when it was found that Leary had purchased the drug in New York. The Texas jury trial required only 45 minutes to reach a verdict on Leary. His daughter had not requested the privilege of a jury trial...
...analyzing faint quasar light that traveled billions of years before reaching telescope mirror and camera, Schmidt has uncovered clues to the ancient secrets of the universe. The remote and starlike objects he studies were born, and may have died, long before the earth existed. By decoding some of their signals that have been so long in transit, the Dutch-born astronomer has upset the familar pre-quasar universe of stars and galaxies. He has rocked the worlds of astronomy, physics and philosophy. He has undermined established theories and stimulated fantastic new ones, provoked scientists into bitter controversies and brilliant hypotheses...