Congress Grapples With Civil Rights and Urban Aid
Congressional Quarterly surveys the 1968 session as protests flare after King’s assassination. It notes major civil rights progress, pending urban aid bills, housing and urban development measures, manpower and education acts, and stalled tax and safety legislation shaping a tense battle over ghetto relief and national unity.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D. Mont
National Insurance Development Corp
Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee
House
Mr. Johnson
U.S
U. S
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Congressional Quarterly Inc
FPC Hope and Hurdles in the Hunger Fight
Washington explores the fish protein concentrate as an antidote to world hunger. Debate centers on production costs labeling rules and distribution. If built the pilot plant would produce eight tons daily enough for 800000 children.
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William Hines
Washington
World Book Science Service
U.S
FPC
Washington D.C
Interior Department
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Here
Health Education and Welfare Department
Food and Drug Administration
Interior
Congress
Food and Drug
Uncle Sam
America
Saturn V Costs and Uncertainty in Space Program Pricing
A historical look at Saturn V pricing debates as NASA battles with opaque figures. Officials cite 282 million for hardware and module costs, while internal estimates and historians question the totals amid rising unit prices and a shrinking unmanned testing cycle. The piece notes higher unaudited costs and broader budget implications for Apollo’s overall 25 billion program.
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Washington
NASA
Cape Kennedy
William C. Schneider
World Book Science Service
Redstone
Alan Shepard
Atlas
John Glenn
Molly Brown
Gus Grissom
John Young
Radiation Uses Grow As Atomic Power Proves Useful
In 1968 the Junior Scientist explains how radiation, though dangerous in living cells, provides valuable benefits. Irradiation improves insulation for wires and sterilizes sealed medical supplies, using radioisotopes or electrical machines, leaving no residual radioactivity.
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Minnesota
Eugene J. McCarthy
Ramsey County
St. Paul
Minn
McCarthy
World Book
Science Service
Wernher von Braun
House Space
Instructional Dynamics Incorporated
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