Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...model-cities and rent-supplement bills are, in fact, the heart of the Administration's cities program. Model cities would concentrate money in selected, hard-core poverty areas, forcing municipal governments to look at a poor neighborhood's problems in their totality. Recognizing that new housing will do little good if everything else in a neighborhood yells poverty, the bill would also provide for the upgrading of schools and such amenities as more frequent garbage collection. Though the Senate cut $125 million from Johnson's request, it still provided $300 million more (for a total...
...Sunday supplement Parade and picture magazine Life are among the many mass media publications that have called marijuana laws far too harsh. It is a fine bandwagon to join, and more and more people are joining it. The New Republic, in a two- part series last spring, noted that marijuana was indeed very dangerous, but only because possessing it can get you five or ten years in prison. Hippies, in their massive drop-out rebellion against society, have a marvelous time with these blatantly undemocratic laws. Anyone can join the fun. All you need is a joint and a match...
Johnson had more than one reason for praise. The insurance companies' pledge may be the crucial factor in keeping alive his cherished rent-supplement program, which has been killed by the House of Representatives but approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Since much of the $1 billion would finance apartments for tenants supported by the rent supplements, it represents tangible evidence for conservative Congressmen that business not only supports the program, but will also provide more than enough private financing to get it under way. Given the need, even $1 billion is not a large...
...agent for Protestant relief work is Viet Nam Christian Service. Launched in 1965, V.N.C.S. supports 73 foreign workers, ranging from doctors to home economists, will spend more than $500,000 this year to operate some 60 projects, including the supplying of 6,500 loaves of bread every day to supplement a Saigon school-lunch program. Some Protestant groups also support their own private assistance programs. The Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service will spend $268,700 this year to operate, among other endeavors, a 38-bed hospital and a school of nursing. The conservative Worldwide Evangelization Crusade sponsors the Happy Haven...
...next years were filled with reverses. She took a job as a governess in Yorkshire to supplement the meager family income, was crushed to find herself treated as a common servant. Hoping to start her own school, she enrolled in a Brussels pensionnat to perfect her French and learn feminine "accomplishments"; instead, she broke her heart over the school's happily married director...