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...people except those directly affected do not know the details in all their dizzying ramifications. How Uncle Sam turned into Big Daddy is delineated in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Government Benefits (William H. Wise & Co.; $9.95), whose revised edition, incorporating Lyndon Johnson's new measures approved by the 89th Congress, is coming off the presses this week. Part of the publisher's purpose is to help people find out about Government benefits they could rightfully claim but often pass up. In a larger sense, however, the volume -whose index begins with Accidents, airplane and ends about...
...passage of the $2.3 billion Higher Education Bill by the 89th Congress on October 20 heralds a new role for the federal government in higher education: it marks the fruition of more than a decade of idea-formentation and promotion by college professors and administrators...
...authorized a $1.4 billion vocational-rehabilitation program, a $178 million-a-year 10% increase in disabled veterans' pensions, and the traditional pork-barrel prize for the Congressmen themselves: 140 pet rivers-and-harbors projects in 41 states, at a cost of $2 billion. And, as always with the 89th, the week saw one major Administration victory: final passage of President Johnson's $2.3 billion higher-education bill establishing the nation's first undergraduate federal scholarships...
...thrust and direction of the prodigious 89th Congress were set by Lyndon Johnson in two speeches. Before a University of Michigan audience at Ann Arbor on May 22, 1964, the President called on the nation to "create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the national capital and the leaders of local communities." In his State of the Union address to the assembled Congress in Washington last Jan. 4, he defined his own soaring dreams of what American life should be. "Our nation," he said then, "was created to help strike away the chains of ignorance and misery...
...ENVIRONMENT. Congress passed an unprecedented highway beautification bill that provides for withholding some federal road funds from states that tolerate unsightly billboards and unconcealed junkyards. The 89th also 1) authorized $240 million for new landscaping along certain federal highways, 2) set up federal regulations that by 1968 will limit atmospheric pollution from automotive exhaust pipes, and 3) approved a water-pollution control law that could lead to courtroom prosecution of industries or individuals responsible for fouling U.S. waters...