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...enough time for most students to travel to their homes. But Lowell enacted his policy of nationalization quickly, and soon many more students were travelling further and further to come to Harvard. Christmas 1912 was the last year in which there were no complaints about the brevity of the recess...
Problem No. 1. Congressmen of both parties returning from the Easter recess expressed the same preoccupation. The war, said Democratic Representative Donald Irwin of Connecticut, "is on people's minds to such a degree that nothing else can compare with it." Several of the 3,800 participants in the women's conference were even more direct. "There's got to be an end to it soon," declared Adelia Marks of Ohio. Said Utah's Lucy Redd: "Viet Nam is the No. 1 problem with our women. A lot of them are going to vote against...
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...
Restrained Frugality. Much of Congress' pre-recess energy was directed toward the hardening of party positions. The Senate's Republican minority last week mounted an impressive effort to defeat the proposed transfer of the Commerce Department's Community Relations Service to the Justice Department, fell short by a 42 to 32 vote that displayed unaccustomed G.O.P. solidarity. After barely failing to eliminate $12 million in rent-subsidy appropriations the week before, the Republican House leadership abandoned attempts at selective pruning, instead touted an across-the-board cut of 5% on all domestic appropriations. Unable to trim bills...