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More agreeable to some kinds of New Frontier legislation than the House, the Senate has passed the Administration's bill to help state and local governments develop mass-transportation facilities. It has also approved a Kennedy bill to set up a Youth Conservation Corps, plus a "home town" youth...
What is astounding about the present administration is not its corruption (most of Haiti's governments have been corrupt) but rather the degree of corruption. Today Haiti provides its President with five palaces, a private police force known as the "Ton-ton Macoute" (which is Creole for "bogeymen"), and countless...
Missouri's Painter Thomas Hart Benton had a longstanding date with several canoes. He wrote: "Last autumn, after a canoe trip in the Ozarks, I asked an official of our Missouri State Conservation office to set me up a spring survey of our major clear water streams. As I...
The Youth Conservation Corps Bill will apparently be killed by the House Rules Committee this month, as an indirect consequence of the President's sending federal troops to Birmingham.
Useful Bark. Weyerhaeuser's evergreen empire began in 1900 when Immigrant Lumberman Frederick Weyerhaeuser bought 900,000 acres of forest from his St. Paul neighbor. Northern Pacific Railroad Builder James J. Hill; he paid $5,400,000 for property today valued at $1,750,000,000. In the early...