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...will wait until later this month to recommend a new set of regulations. It voted, 9-1, December 20, to retain the requirement and voted unanimously to scrap the present form...
...entire poverty program for the current fiscal year, and that only after a rough fight. If Johnson seriously pushes a major new job scheme in an election year when taxes and Government spending are already high on the agenda of bitter issues, he can expect a more grinding scrap on Capitol Hill than...
Rivercraft and rescue squads quickly swept.the scene for survivors, picking up at least eight, along with five bodies. Divers spotted three more corpses in a car but were unable to recover any of the victims pinned in the submerged scrap heap. It will take weeks of work to cut them all free. Some cars were doubtless swept downstream, and police estimated that it would be a long time-if ever-until a full count could be made of the victims. Mean while, Ohio Governor James Rhodes and his West Virginia counterpart, Hulett Carlson Smith, were pressing for an investigation...
...method is this," he explained. "I write a poem on innumerable sheets of scrap paper, often upside down and crisscross ways unpunctuated, surrounded by drawings of lampposts and boiled eggs, in a very dirty mess; bit by bit I copy out the slowly developing poem into an exercise book; and, when it is completed, I type it out. The scrap sheets I burn." Fourteen years after Thomas' death, collectors still mourn those burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University...
...shortage of helicopters is easily detected and quickly cured. But the ultimate effects of McNamara's decisions to scrap projects such as the Air Force's Dyna-soar spacecraft and to phase out long-range heavy bombers, will not be fully measurable for years. McNamara has been spending $7 billion a year for research and development, far more than had been allocated previously; yet he is accused of killing more projects than he carries out. Ten years hence, the nuclear aircraft engine, which he abandoned, may prove to be a vital necessity...