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...second half of the 88th enacted the most far-ranging civil rights bill in history. It approved an $11½ billion federal income tax cut, the biggest ever, as a means to spur the economy. It set up a program of federal-state cooperation in tackling the mass transportation problems that threaten to stifle metropolitan areas, set aside some 9,000,000 acres of wilderness for future recreation and conservation. It provided federal grants to build higher education facilities, created a program to retrain employees displaced by automation. It gave top executives in Government new incentives to remain in public...
Buying at Home. The newest spur to transit building comes from the Administration, which has asked Congress for a $225 million appropriation to get the 1964 Mass Transit Act rolling. The law is expected to stimulate $600 million worth of transit-car purchases over a decade, also mean an additional $400 million in sales for such busbuilders as General Motors and the Flxible Co. of Dayton. Whatever the total, U.S. equipment makers will get all of it. Congress tacked a little-noticed "Buy American" proviso into...
...students, it approved last week its first $2,000,000 student loan program. To educate practicing lawyers, it sponsors more than 40 publications, from the A.B.A. Journal to the Practical Lawyer. To train green state trial judges, it recently founded a summer "college" in Colorado. To spur legal research, it runs Chicago's $600,000-a-year American Bar Foundation. Though its 83 canons of ethics have yet to be uniformly obeyed or even favored, the A.B.A. is still the only bar group with the power (and increasingly the will) to set high standards across the country. One measure...
...English and science to 250 elementary and junior high pupils from Boston public schools. Giving knowledge in big doses and small classes (ten students), the program aimed at instilling a thirst for learning that would grow during the normal school year. The same goal was behind Exeter's SPUR (Special Program for Underprivileged Regions) plan, which brought 20 eighth-grade pupils and four local teachers from Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to New Hampshire for classes in Exeter's summer session. Next summer Hotchkiss School, financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, will play host...
...cities. It should also give the G.O.P. greater representation from the U.S.'s generally Republican, fast-growing suburbia. It may hurt the Republicans in their old stronghold, the Midwest, where rural interests have long had disproportionate power in state legislatures. If nothing else, it should serve as a spur to the G.O.P. to work much harder in the big industrial cities...