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Five years later, America had reached the moon and NASA had not even begun construction. Harried by spending cuts and encouraged by President Nixon maneuvering against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the space agency pulled out. It willed the land to the Department of Transportation, which put its regional headquarters on a five acre plot and, two years later, decided to leave the remaining 24 acres of empty land to Cambridge...
Pincus also discussed the enormous influence the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has on "its direction and tone," and said had Sen. John D. Sparkman (D-Ala) or Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt) chaired the committee during the Vietnam years, it would never have "taken on the administration" the way it did under Fulbright's leadership...
Seventy-eight of those days have passed, meaning that a week from next Tuesday, Sen. James F. Buckley's (R-N.Y.) fabled-and-faulted "files bill" will break the seals on those inscrutable, hitherto-unpenetrated mysteries--Harvard students' confidential folders...
...brochure urges readers to write their senators in support of Senate Bill S3409. The bill, introduced by Sen. John Tunney of California, would allow farm workers what the brochure calls "the right to a totally impartial, secret ballot to select the union of their choice...
...resolution was drawn up in response to a bill sponsored by Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-Md.) which requires government-aided medical schools to obtain a pledge from at least 25 per cent of its entering class to serve in medically deprived areas after graduation. The bill passed the Senate on September...