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> Passed, in the House, an Administration bill to create a Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development. The vote was 217 to 184, comfortable enough for practical purposes but the closest squeeze of the year for one priority proposal for the Great Society. The bill now goes to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: Work Done | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

He stood on top of his spaceship's white titanium hull. He touched it with his bulky thermal gloves. He burned around like Buck Rogers propelling himself with his hand-held jet. He floated lazily on his back. He joked and laughed. He gazed down at the earth 103...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

By a frankly hostile squeeze play, the schoolteachers of the U.S. are battling the voters of the state of Oklahoma to get more state aid for education. A month ago, in a referendum, the electorate decisively defeated a 10 boost in the state sales tax (presently 20 per dollar) that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: Showdown in Oklahoma | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

Better yet, DeBakey and his co-workers believe, it may eventually be possible to harness one of the body's powerful muscles, perhaps in the shoulder girdle, to such a pacemaker. Then, when the little device gives its electrical command, the muscle will contract, and in the process it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Texas Tornado | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

How Are You? Tired of the financial squeeze after his sophomore year, Lyndon brashly applied for a teaching job in the obscure town of Cotulla, between San Antonio and Laredo. He was named principal of a new red brick Mexican-American school, charged at the age of 20 with directing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Lyndon Johnson's School Days | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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