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What little movement there was bred new delay and debate. A Senate-House conference committee ended a two-month impasse over the foreign aid authorization bill, recommending $2.67 billion-$780 million less than the Administration had requested. The conference also decided to abolish a loan program that finances allied arms purchases in the U.S. Meanwhile, a House appropriations subcommittee drew up a different measure that provided even less money and more restrictions on military aid. The bill raising Social Security benefits that is emerging in the Senate is far more generous than the one already voted in the House, while...
...office of America is to liberate," said Emerson, "to abolish kingcraft, priestcraft, caste, monopoly, to pull down the gallows, to burn up the bloody statute-book, to take in the immigrant, to open the doors of the sea and the fields of the earth." No nation has ever undertaken a similar task, and it is hardly surprising that the American path has often been strewn with monumental confusions as well as good intentions. Wilsonian idealism did not make the world safe for democracy in World War I; it wound up driving disillusioned Americans into an isolationism that probably helped pave...
...promotions. With coupon-bearing cigarettes now accounting for 55% of all sales, British smokers use the premiums to get everything from dart boards to Caribbean holidays and discount auto insurance. Rising in the House of Commons, Minister of Health Kenneth Robinson announced that the government would introduce legislation to abolish cigarette coupons, take additional steps "to control or ban" certain other promotional and advertising practices...
...Yale College Faculty voted over-whelmingly yesterday to abolish its numerical grading system and to adopt a pass-fail system for all undergraduate courses...
Robert Strange McNamara is somewhat the epitome of the University cool-liberal. He went to Berkeley and then to Harvard. He taught at Ann Arbor. He recites Yeats. He led a movement to abolish ROTC as a student. He is well-to-do. He has a computer-brain. He is cool and aloof. Robert Strange McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was looking out of the window of his Pentagon office, watching the confrontation below last Saturday. Maybe he was wondering what his liberal brain was thinking...