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This was exactly the point on which the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, John Williams of Delaware, expertly probed for and found grave weaknesses. Williams shocked his colleagues by producing figures assembled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at his request. They showed that total state-federal assistance to an FAP-eligible family (food stamps, Medicaid, public housing) could in several states add up to more than $6,000 yearly, none of it subject to income or Social Security taxes. That is more than many self-supporting families earn...
...three less developed continents: in countries with different income levels, of different size and at different stages of development; and in countries with different political systems, ideologies and apparent growth doctrines. If we fall, it is because we are limited in our choices to those countries which request our assistance, but as our present and immediately prospective project countries suggest, we are engaged in an increasingly diverse collection of poor countries...
During the summer, the House Internal Security Committee (HISC) requested that Harvard and 200 other universities submit a list of all student speakers who appeared on campus during the past two years. The purpose of the request, according to HISC, was to study how and by whom radical student groups are supported and financed...
Ever since the Marshall Plan, aid has been one of America's chief foreign policy weapons. Yet for more than a decade, the once acclaimed program has faced increasing antagonism and steadily shrinking appropriations (current request for economic aid: $1.85 billion, compared with last year's request of $2.28 billion and appropriation of $1.46 billion). There has been resentment in recipient nations over the American presence and conditions that accompany financial help, resentment in Congress over inefficiency and the commingling of military and economic goals, resentment among taxpayers over politically portrayed "giveaways...
There exists, moreover, at least one account of a Harvard student actually zonking out over the thought of a noted predecessor. Honoring his family's request that he remain anonymous, the freshman in mention discovered that several hundred years before a totally undistinguished poet had resided for a term in his study. He immediately charged out every volume of the man's work in Widener Library (two). purchased a third or fourth-hand frock coat from Joe Keezer's on Mass Ave., and for the duration of the winter did become that poet. Devotees of the Harvard Union dining hall...