Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freezing the Budget. Mills has wide backing in the House. Even as Secretary Kennedy and other Administration spokesmen were testifying before Ways and Means, the House debated -and then passed-an extraordinary proposal. It clapped an absolute ceiling on federal spending,* limiting outlays for fiscal 1970, which begins July 1, to $192,900,000,000. The freeze has a chance for Senate approval as well, although the upper chamber is generally less economy-minded than the House...
...experience of sightless military veterans is the most dramatic proof of Scott's conclusion that the blind could be better trained to lead independent, dignified lives-if the agencies would change their ways. In rebuttal, agency spokesmen strongly contend that Scott's brush is much too broad. They correctly note that many progressive organizations for the blind, such as New York's Lighthouse, have modified their methods since the study began. Ultimately, Scott's attack on help for the blind raises larger questions than those he studied specifically. Most notably, do the same stereotyped expectations that...
...Harvard spokesmen left unclear the intentions regarding an apartment building on University Road in Cambridge, which Harvard students have insisted not be torn down for construction of the Kennedy Memorial Library...
Because of the repeated votes, some New Left supporters charged that the opposing faction was manipulating the meeting by voting repeatedly until their position came into the majority. Worker-Student spokesmen replied that some of those voting did not support the campaign's goal of total abolition of Harvard ROTC...
Chalmers said last night that his motion came as a reaction to the forcible entry of students into last month's closed SFAC meeting. "In response to the clear threat made by SDS spokesmen when they moved into the meeting, it seemed appropriate that the Faculty should make clear that its failure to take action in the past must not be taken as a precedent for the future," Chalmers said. He called the motion "a warning, not a threat...