Word: programing
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Facing Finch is a vast bureaucracy comprising 107,000 employees and a budget of $44 billion. Some of the problems and programs are: - Welfare. Presently a disastrous $4 billion program, surrounded by problems and proposals for change (see TIME ESSAY...
...CHARLES TOWNES, 53, of the University of California at Berkeley, is the inventor of the laser. His area of study is to determine what should come after the Apollo program. His ideas will be coordinated with those of DR. HORTON GUYFORD STEVER, 52, president of the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who will look at the whole field of science policy...
...helped to mollify Mills was Nixon's apparent agreement that any tax breaks allowed to private industry-to subsidize job training for the unemployed, for in-AP stance-be listed in the budget as expenditures. Also, when Mills preached to Nixon on the virtues of an austere spending program and the vices of cooking the books, he found a receptive audience. Of course, one comfortable talk does not necessarily ensure protracted harmony between a Republican President and a Democratic Congress. Mills, for instance, still opposes Nixon's proposal to gear increases in social security benefits to rises...
...SPACE PROGRAM. Nix on has been a vigorous advocate of space exploration...
Though the Federal Government follows its contribution with overall guidelines, rules and benefits vary enormously from state to state, city to city. In Cleveland, 80% of those who apply for welfare are accepted; in Houston, only 30%. In one important program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, New York State offers benefits of $71.75 per person, as compared with $8.50 in Mississippi. No one knows how much the wide welfare gap between North and South has contributed to the migration of poor Southern Negroes to big-city ghettos-but it must have been a factor...