Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hours after the Democratic congressional landslide rumbled down last November, nimble Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed to build upon it "a bold housing program" suitable to the big-spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until...
...state not founder on the rocks of partisanship. No one who has sat in this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club...
Last week New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller became the first elected official in the U.S. to come out for a compulsory statewide fallout-shelter program. Defying warnings that he was dealing with political poison. Rockefeller announced that he would urge the state legislature at its next session to back up the recommendations of his Special Task Force on Protection from Radioactive Fallout...
...successful as most of the program was, it could only serve as a bare introduction to two important modern poets. But hopefully, it might have sent at least a few to Lamont for a further look at what they have to offer...
...Summer School Chorus is preparing for its annual concert on Thursday, August 13th. This year's program will include choruses from Handel's oratorio Solomon, motets and madrigals of the Renaissance and the Twentieth Century, the Solemn Vespers by Mozart, and the Ode to St. Cecelia by Norman Dello Joio...