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Last week the President also: > Signed a flurry of bills, including a measure giving the Government permanent possession of all records and evidence connected with the Kennedy assassination, and a four-year omnibus farm bill-barely an hour before the midnight deadline, when the bill would have died for lack of the presidential signature...
...omnibus legislation was designed to strengthen developing institutions, turn the resources of the universities toward the problems of the urbanized community and make a college education a genuine possibility for all capable high school graduates. If it succeds, it could be the century's most important development in higher education,--more significant than the Land-Grant College and the G.I. Bill of Rights combined...
...employees, who last year collected $2,351,980 for 63,581 suggestions that led to savings of $66,171,148. > Approved, in the Senate Public Works Committee, a modified version of the Administration's highway beautification program (see MODERN LIVING). > Approved, in the House Public Works Committee, an omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant for dredging Texas' Trinity River so that Dallas and Fort Worth might...
...Bill. Instead, as passed by the House, the Administration bill would extend the program for four years-the longest life of any omnibus farm bill in U.S. legislative history. Its provisions essentially are little changed from previous programs, with the exception of an additional 50?-a-bu. subsidy for wheat, raising the support price to $2.50 for wheat grown for domestic consumption, and a new cropland retirement plan under which the Agriculture Secretary may draw...
HOUSING. An omnibus bill that continues a multiplicity of programs such as public housing and urban renewal. It also starts some new programs, including a rent subsidy plan for families whose incomes are low enough to qualify them for low-income public housing. Awaiting signature...