Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Congress in recess, among the few items of business to cross the President's desk were the resignations of Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry and Assistant HEW Secretary Francis Keppel. Memphis Lawyer Henry, who as FCC chief since 1963 has stung A. T. & T. with a still-in-progress study of its rate setup but soft-pedaled his predecessors' criticism of the TV industry, is anxious to return to private practice. In three years at HEW, Keppel made its Office of Education the nation's most innovative force in public education (TIME cover...
...comparison with its heroically productive first session, the performance of the 89th Congress this year seems lackluster. Nonetheless, as Congressmen headed home last week for the Easter recess, they could reasonably claim that they had accomplished virtually all that they had set out to do. The session has set a "good normal record," as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield assesses it. "It hasn't been sensational, like last year, but it has been solid...
...worthy enough experiment, but it never got off the ground. Parliament immediately went into a long recess, and when it finally reconvened last month, an angry Mobutu all but put it out of business...
...disillusions have been great," the general told the assembled legislators. "Profiting from the recess, certain of you have spread false reports in your home areas. You have done everything to sow disorder...
...SCHOOLS. A cut-for a change-from $260 million this fiscal year to $159 million in 1966-67 in federal subsidies for school lunches and recess milk. Though the President said that the remaining funds would be rechanneled to provide food for children "who need it most," his suggested savings stirred pious protest in Congress...