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...President also asked for creation of a National Insurance Development Corporation that would end "redlining" practices, by which insurance companies refuse to insure homes and businesses in potential ghetto riot areas. As well, he requested $1 billion for model cities, a threefold increase over last year, and passage of the Administration's oft-requested fair-housing law. All told, the multifaceted program would cost taxpayers $2.4 billion for the first year...
...Dealer Lyndon Johnson, the signing of the social security bill last week offered a threefold blessing: a chance to memorialize F.D.R., an occasion to tell 24 million present beneficiaries that, beginning in March, they would get the biggest increases in payments enacted since social security began-and the knowledge that most voters would not feel the additional cost until after Election...
...swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...
Some beginning. Last year Flying Tiger increased its revenues by 53% to $86 million, while multiplying its profits nearly threefold to $12.1 million. What makes the record all the more impressive is the fact that the airline was founded in 1945 on an investment of $180,000 and a rickety fleet of eight Budd Conestogas. Briefly called the National Skyway Freight Corp., it took its subsequent name-and many of its top personnel-from the legendary Flying Tigers, volunteer American pilots who flew for China early in World War II. Disbanded as a unit 25 years ago last week, most...
Another Pause? The Senators who signed apparently had a threefold purpose. First, they wanted to let their constituents know that they were not giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Second, they wanted Hanoi to be aware that despite their own views, the great majority of the American people back the war; a Louis Harris poll, in fact, showed that no less than 72% of the public support Johnson on the war and that 59% want to intensify it. Third, the Senators were anxious to shore up their own political flanks. In Idaho, Church is worried that he may confront...