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...This makes it impossible," says Mrs. Green, "for any member of Congress to know what is being done." The aid comes with strings-not so much crippling directives as warping pressures. Since it traditionally gives aid only for specific purposes. Congress tends to produce crash programs that enrich one segment of education at the expense of others. A classic case is the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which has poured millions into "exotic" language study but not one cent into training college teachers of French, German and Italian. To some educators, who foresee more federal aid as inevitable, all this...
...network TV program, championing the case for legalized abortion, will not be broadcast by WHDH, Boston's local CBS channel. In announcing its decision not to carry the episode of the weekly "Defenders" series, WHDH called it "needlessly offensive to a substantial segment of the audience...
...winning war against a steel price increase. "I want business to do well." he told a White House visitor. "If they don't, we don't." Said he at his press conference: "This Administration harbors no ill will against any individual, any industry, corporation or segment of the American economy. There can be no room on either side in this country at this time for any feelings of hostility or vindictiveness . . . When a mistake has been retracted and the public interest preserved, nothing is to be gained from further public recriminations...
...least one segment of the building market is already booming. Partly to cope with the ever-mounting paperwork created by the burgeoning of such service industries as insurance and banking, U.S. business is building a tall new crop of office skyscrapers. This year, office space will be increased by 10% in Boston and Chicago, 15% in Los Angeles, 20% in Washington -and New York City will add twice as much space as already exists in Baltimore. All told, heavy construction contracts are running 11% ahead of early...
...intellectual idol of a large segment of U.S. conservatives. William...