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...Safe Streets and Crime Control Act, which he proposed to Congress last month. With $50 million spent in the next fiscal year, and another $300 million the following year, Johnson would like to encourage community crime-control programs, coordinate the police, the courts and the correction system, spur new police academies, build new crime labs. Such efforts are sorely needed, but they are only a beginning...
...commodities, but also Government. Less than a week after his move was announced, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a 3,000,000-ton, Government-subsidized shipment of American wheat and sorghum to drought-stricken India. The plan, proposed by the President and guided through Congress by Wilson, will spur business on the floor of the exchange. Clearly, knowledgeable Washingtonian Wilson, when he takes over in Chicago on June 1, should not have to learn the territory...
...course it would probably have to be a fifth course, pass-fail or not. But the Harrad students take their "Human Values" course, as you know, at night after returning from normal classes at the established educational institutions in the Boston area. Admittedly their coed rooms might spur them to the higher academic efforts, but Harvard students could muddle through until the lessons of the new courses led to similar housing practices...
...Captain reminisced over lunch. He recalled how, in the course of dealing with Johnson, he had come to like and admire Moyers. One day last August, Moyers phoned Guggenheim, who was lounging in his trunks on a Savannah beach, to give him a message from L.B.J. On the spur of the moment the Captain said, "Bill, everybody leaves the Government sooner or later. When you are ready to go, how about coming to work for Newsday?" To Guggenheim's surprise Moyers was willing, replying that he might quit "sooner rather than later." Thus, at 32, Moyers...
...exactly speaking sotto voce last month when he told Senators at his confirmation hearings that "I would like to see private enterprise put up as much money as it possibly could. You know, there is a lot to be said for having your own money on the line to spur a program along...