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Despite the Committee decision, the Senate agreed by unanimous consent Friday to debate the bill for no more than five hours today and to vote on the measure Tuesday after a maximum of one hour debate...
Even if the Senate does approve it, the measure faces a bleak future in the House, where it would have to win the approval or at least the consent of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.). Mills has traditionally opposed similar bills, and the House in general lacks enthusiasm for any fiscal measure initiated in the Senate...
...clear and hopeful as the report was, it was shadowed by a storm in which a member of the Brooklyn hospital's board of trustees charged that the Brooklyn patients had been used "as guinea pigs ... in secret experiments . . . without their consent," that they had not been told what they were being injected with, and that their own doctors had not been told. Dr. Mandel conceded the patients had not been told that the injections were to be of cancer cells, but he insisted they had known they were being tested for immunity against cancer, and had given verbal...
...succeeded his longtime friend last year, Woods recognized that the bank had undergone its own form of population explosion; it now numbers among its 101 members many who need education and improved agriculture more than dams or steel mills. Woods convinced his directors that they should unbend and consent to bankroll such unaccustomed projects as schools and farms. Annual loan totals, as a result, have soared from $646 million in 1962 to $788 million last year, and the bank's 1963 earnings reached a record of $89 million. Now Woods reads his latest progress reports as avidly...
...Fraud upon the State." The chief practical safeguard is that most Mexican divorces have the consent of both husband and wife, and few people back out later. But when third parties-disinherited children, later spouses, pension fund administrators-have an interest in the case, they may have grounds for successful court attacks...