Word: senlis
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Fortunately, there is a hedge: the Senate and House bills both provide for a reconsideration of the location of the center. Many members of Congress, notably Sen. Clifford Case (R.N.J.) are not at all certain that Boston is the best size for the project. They have a point. There are probably a score of places where such a laboratory could be built, and at least three cities-New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco-whose resources of scientific talent are as impressive as Boston...
Indiana politics is not the only reason to expect a strong conservative push. Student right-wingers throughout the country are taking heart from the increasing popularity of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.), long their political idol...
...Senate approved the bill after rejecting a move by Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R.Neb.) to strike the Research Center item from the space budget. The 45-21 vote followed party lines, although two Democrats, Sens. Frank Lausche of Ohio and William Proxmire of Wisconsin, voted against the Center...
Although the Boston project excited some controversy, most of the two-day debate on the space authorization bill was taken up by a wrangle over communications satellite research. Fifteen liberal Democratic Senators, led by the late Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, sponsored a resolution to require the privately-owned Communications Satellite Corporation to reimburse the government for any "advice or information" provided to the corporation...
...Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D.N.M.), floor leader for the bill, offered a substitute amendment which was passed, 62-11. Anderson's amendment, a restatement of Administration policy, forbids the space agency to provide services "for the exclusive benefit" of non-governmental agencies except when given on a reimbursable basis...