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Buying at Home. The newest spur to transit building comes from the Administration, which has asked Congress for a $225 million appropriation to get the 1964 Mass Transit Act rolling. The law is expected to stimulate $600 million worth of transit-car purchases over a decade, also mean an additional $400 million in sales for such busbuilders as General Motors and the Flxible Co. of Dayton. Whatever the total, U.S. equipment makers will get all of it. Congress tacked a little-noticed "Buy American" proviso into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Back on the Rails | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...students, it approved last week its first $2,000,000 student loan program. To educate practicing lawyers, it sponsors more than 40 publications, from the A.B.A. Journal to the Practical Lawyer. To train green state trial judges, it recently founded a summer "college" in Colorado. To spur legal research, it runs Chicago's $600,000-a-year American Bar Foundation. Though its 83 canons of ethics have yet to be uniformly obeyed or even favored, the A.B.A. is still the only bar group with the power (and increasingly the will) to set high standards across the country. One measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: 87 Years Old & Getting Younger | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...English and science to 250 elementary and junior high pupils from Boston public schools. Giving knowledge in big doses and small classes (ten students), the program aimed at instilling a thirst for learning that would grow during the normal school year. The same goal was behind Exeter's SPUR (Special Program for Underprivileged Regions) plan, which brought 20 eighth-grade pupils and four local teachers from Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to New Hampshire for classes in Exeter's summer session. Next summer Hotchkiss School, financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, will play host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Schools: As Hard as ABC | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...cities. It should also give the G.O.P. greater representation from the U.S.'s generally Republican, fast-growing suburbia. It may hurt the Republicans in their old stronghold, the Midwest, where rural interests have long had disproportionate power in state legislatures. If nothing else, it should serve as a spur to the G.O.P. to work much harder in the big industrial cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: A New Charter For State Legislatures | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...Siberia, a big business under the Czars, ground to a halt after the Revolution. It did not get started again until 1927, when Stalin, after reading Bret Harte's novels about the California gold rush, set up a gold trust in hopes that renewed mining in Siberia would spur a mass migration to that sparsely settled area. His scheme produced no substantial population shift, but the Russians so rebuilt and expanded their mining industry that by 1938 their annual gold output was worth $183 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: That Russian Gold | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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