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On Capitol Hill, he promoted bills on every subject from water pollution to soybean research. "I like all subjects," he said. "I can't help it. It's glands." Though few got anywhere at first, many of Humphrey's proposals later became law, usually under other men...
And yet, there are good reasons for keeping Memorial Hall. In addition, that is, to the alumni ties, which probably aren't as strong now as many Administration officials say--but Harvard is cautious and it's not now for deliberatly alienating its graduates.) First, whatever one thinks of the...
CONSERVATION. To ensure Americans "a sane environment," the President presented to Congress the most exhaustive conservation blueprint ever devised. He requested an initial $10 million for a new Redwood National Park in California, plus funds for additional parks, seashores and hiking trails.
The President used the old device of calling for cutbacks in popular programs that he knows Congress is highly unlikely to slash. Among them: cuts of $150 million in agricultural conservation, $85 million in aid for depressed-area schools and $52 million in the school milk program. Any plan to...
Born Restless. Born in 1912, the youngest of 15 children of a taciturn Kansas farmer, Parks began his search at 16, when his mother died and his family scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago...