Rent Subsidy Plan for Low Income Faces Uncertain Future
The Johnson administration pushes a rent-subsidy program to aid low income families, with emergency bills providing 12 million this year and 22 million next year. Supporters say private landlords and nonprofit groups can expand housing at affordable rents, while critics warn the scheme may risk creating institutional housing and questions remain until a trial proves outcomes.
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Columbia Assembly urges full time, well paid legislatures
The Columbia University Assembly in a report urges state legislatures to grow to a deliberative size with full professional staff and adequate compensation. It argues that annual plenary sessions should remove time limits and create continuing bodies, otherwise power may rest entirely with Washington.
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North Dakota
Rhode Island
New York
Columbia Assembly
Washington
Young Republicans split over direction after Washington clash
The article examines the conflict between moderates and conservatives in the Young Republicans. It highlights Reuben McCornack’s narrow Washington club victory, Senator Hugh Scott’s push to tame national youth wings, and Donald Lukens’s 1980 Ohio primary upset showing conservative appeal through disciplined, faith oriented campaigning.
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Ray Bliss
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Frank Carlson
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Bliss
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Ohio
Lukens
Congress
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Donald Lukens
Ens
Revolt Against Freeman Rises In Democratic Senate Fringe
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report a secret breakfast with eight Western Democratic Senators amid anger at Secretary Orville Freeman. They oppose his blame-the-farmer rhetoric and policy moves including releasing wheat and feed corn below market, export bans on rawhide, and Canada cheddar imports under President Johnson's pressure.
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Washington
Orville Freeman
Johnson
Freeman
Freman
Commerce Department
Canada
Mr. Johnson
Farm bloc senators pressure Freeman over inflation and farm policy
A group of eight Democratic farm bloc Senators confronted Secretary Freeman accusing him of failing to defend farmers amid cutbacks in the milk program and rising costs. They warned him to push the White House for a farmer friendly image or face calls for his resignation. Freeman, under cross pressures from labor and urban voters, approved a 7.7 million acre wheat expansion for 1967 but faces skepticism from farmers who fear the move comes too late.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Lee Metcalf
Montana
Metcalf
Johnson
White House
Budget Bureau
Council of Economic Advisers
Crisis in Viet Nam echoes 1963 turmoil in Saigon
AP reports a pattern of optimistic or cautious U.S. assessments about South Viet Nam repeatedly misjudging events. Ky moves to seize Da Nang stirs Buddhist tensions, recalling the 1963 Diem crisis. The piece notes ambassadorial vacancies, shifting Saigon leadership, and rising Viet Cong strength.
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Viet Nam
William L. Ryan
U.S
South
U. S
Saigon
Honolulu
Washington
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dean Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Viet Nam
Rusk
da Nang
Henry Cabot Lodge
Frederick Nolting
Lodge
Nolting
Maxwell D. Taylor
Taylor
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
May 18 1966 in History Highlights
On this date in 1917 the Selective Service Act was passed and signed by President Woodrow Wilson. Also noted: 1804 Napoleon proclaimed emperor, 1863 Grant began Vicksburg siege, 1914 Panama Canal opened to barges, 1951 UN moved to NYC, 1954 Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
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Napoleon
France
Ulysses Grant
Vicksburg
Panama Canal
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New York City
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Sen. Estes Kefauver
Oregon
Senate
Poor Man's Test For Sanity By HAL BOYLE
New York column presents a light hearted sanity test with questions about daily frustrations and suspicions. It suggests honesty in answers and ends with a reflection on personal and public perceptions of sanity.
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Hal Boyle
New York
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Dear Abby Advice Columns on Family, dating, and manners
A reader asks about placing the child Dickie with relatives given a broken family. Abby suggests legal options and emphasizes a child needs love, not just shelter. A second letter notes a date’s expectation of necking and Abby says no justification is needed for saying no. A third asks about a mother in law's corrections. Abby advises tact and caution with the elderly relative.
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