Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...House last week to shoot down a proposal for a still bigger farm-subsidy handout. There were some who thought that the shot would ring through the next session of Congress, might well signal the beginning of the end for the whole ramshackle $7 billion-a-year farm-subsidy program. The battle began because Midwestern farm Democrats had boldly determined to play election-year politics with wheat. In a straight party-line vote, they engineered the defeat (108-92) of a Senate-passed bill approved by the Administration, calling for a 20% cut in wheat acreage and a continued price...
...House unenthusiastically approved a bill providing medical care for the aged because it could not be amended on the floor and faced quick death if returned to committee. Covering roughly 1,000,000 persons over 65, the program would cost a hazily estimated $325 million in its first year (1961) to be split by state and federal governments. States would join voluntarily, scale the program to suit their needs. Rhode Island's Aime J. Forand, sponsor of a far more ambitious Democratic medical-aid plan, blasted the bill ("a watered-down version of a no-good bill that came...
...Atlantic in pursuit of the Democratic nomination for Governor were at opposite poles on the issue of race relations. Stocky former State Senator Terry Sanford, 42, had led a field of four in the first primary last month by soft-pedaling his own segregationist sympathies, pushing instead an ambitious program of building schools and luring industry. His runoff opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration, promised to "create a climate of public opinion in strong opposition...
...county organization seen in three decades. Endorsed by most of the state's newspapers, he appealed to city folk and labor unions as a protector of the public schools ("We need massive intelligence, not massive resistance"), attracted Piedmont bankers and textile manufacturers with his go-getting industrial program, got overwhelming support from North Carolina's 160,000 Negro voters...
...agricultural past and stayed in close touch with the powerful church hierarchy. When he died last year, his common-sense successor, Paul Sauve, tried to modernize the party but died in turn before his reforms could take effect. The compromise successor as premier, Antonio Barrette, 61, had no program of his own, and let his party and the province drift...