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Aside from such quicker-than-the-eye "economies," the new budget proposes to spend not less but more for those "other functions." It even requests funds for some brand-new programs, notably $60 million to establish a National Service Corps (the so-called Domestic Peace Corps) to "strengthen the volunteer spirit in the provision of social services in our local communities...
Although elated over their victory, the junior Republicans publicly insisted that they had not really been acting against Halleck or Arends. "What we tried to do," said one, "was to strengthen Charlie's position and at the same time shake the foundation under his feet. It all depends, I think, on how Charlie reads the signs and portents." Ex-Chairman Hoeven thought he could read signs and portents quite clearly. Said he of the rebels: "They're going after Mr. Halleck and Mr. Arends in due time...
...Congress. Eisenhower would dilute the politically entrenched power of Congress and strengthen the Executive by limiting Senators to two terms of six years each and House members to three terms of four years each. The scheme would modify the congressional committee system which promotes members according to seniority and often assures a single Congressman tight control over a crucial committee for years...
...brain child of a Miami chiropractor, Jerome Harold, 36, now secretary of "the Committee to Warn of the Arrival of Communist Merchandise on the Local Business Scene." Harold organized TCTWOTAOCMOTLBS more than a year ago. "It doesn't make sense to me." says he, "that we should strengthen countries whose leaders have sworn to bury us by buying their products." Actually, the U.S. last year imported $84.6 million in Communist-made goods, but exported $133.4 million in U.S. merchandise to those countries. The U.S. State Department, moreover, condones such trade, argues that it can be used as a wedge...
Harvard is one of the six universities to share in the $1 million grant designed to strengthen Latin American studies in the United States. The other schools were Columbia, Texas, Minnesota, California (Berkeley), and U.C.L.A...