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...last getting organized to do its enormous job properly. Since the Drug Amendments Act took effect last June, FDA has beefed up its staff of M.D.s and veterinarians from 65 to 101, with 25 more still being recruited. Most important of all, FDA's key drug-safety position, vacant for 18 months, has at last been filled by a man well qualified for the grueling work: Dr. Joseph Francis Sadusk Jr., 54, of George Washington University...
...houses around, no sewage or water service-is $3,500 an acre. Sometimes the price can kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price, developers would have had to put up homes in the $30,000 class to make a profit. The tract lies vacant because no one wants to pay that much to live by the side of a highway...
...Delta lies vacant and barren all day; it broods in the evening and it cries all night. I get the impression that the land is cursed and suffering, groaning under the awful weight of history's sins. I can understand what Faulkner meant: it must be loved or hated...or both. It's hard to imagine how any music but the blues could have taken root in the black soil around...
Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, has told a Senate subcommittee that Congress should elect a new Vice-President when the post becomes vacant. He also suggested that the new President--President Johnson, for example--nominate several candidates for the office...
...number of the bills call for Congress to elect a new vice-President when that office becomes vacant. A second group would have the President name a new vice-President. A proposed Constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) combines the best parts of these two proposals; Bayh's bill would have the President nominate a man, who would then have to be confirmed by Congress. This suggestion would avoid having Congress dictate its choice to the President; the need for Congressional confirmation provides a valuable cheek, on the President's decision...