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...President deferred the most sensitive decision to next year-how the corporation should be financed to protect it from political pressures. Also in the education field, Johnson called for a fourfold increase in the Teacher Corps (to 5,500 volunteers) by mid-1968 and expansion of programs to train new teachers and administrators, combat adult illiteracy and eliminate school segregation. Total cost of his education proposals: $11 billion...
...part as a result of the pill, the decrease has been concentrated mainly in the higher economic and educational strata. Nearly 5,000,000 U.S. women of childbearing age are too poor and uninformed to have access to birth-control services, and the Government may well multiply its outlays fourfold in the next few years in order to reach them...
...examiner recommended that Continental and two other lines be granted the Pacific Northwest-to-Southwest routes, the last major runs in the U.S. still without through air service. Last week the Pentagon announced that Continental's minimum-guarantee contract to airlift troops to Viet Nam would be increased fourfold, to $30 million in 1967. And Los Angeles-based Continental announced a $64 million order for ten more jets. In all, Continental is investing $196 million to add 30 planes by 1968, doubling the size of its jet fleet...
...last summer, 21,000 troopers of the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) set up tents and helipads near An Khe. Prostitutes and profiteers swarmed into the town; prices for everything from beef to beer soared, as did the incidence of disease among the Americans. Dysentery and other intestinal diseases multiplied fourfold within four months; venereal disease soon afflicted nearly a third of the G.I.s...
...accumulation of 30 Oscars is unequaled in the history of the motion picture industry. He has won 900 other awards and five honorary doctorates (though he never graduated from high school). The corporation bearing his name has grown fourfold in ten years; in 1965 it grossed $110 million-a 27% rise over 1964. The charitable foundation he established without fuss or ballyhoo has generously endowed educational and cultural activities in Southern California. Yet for all his laurels, Walt Disney at 64 is still the busiest man in Hollywood...