Congress Keeps Adjusting Foreign Aid Totals
A lengthy look at how Congress trims foreign aid funding since 1947. Kennedy requests around 4.9 to 5 billion, but House and Senate battles yield authorization near 4.0 to 4.8 billion. The final appropriation remains open, with potential cuts lasting into the last steps of budgeting. The Clay committee’s review shapes but does not seal spending.
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House
Senate
Tess
Lucius D. Clay
Clay
Otto Passman
D-La
Passman
U.S
Free World
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
Minister Gets Crank Calls
In Tonawanda New York an AP report says a minister received several crank telephone calls after he fed his congregation. The incidents highlight distress over the church act and reflect tensions in the community.
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Tonawanda
Beverly Hills Freeway Threat Prompts Uproar
Actor Clifton Webb eyed his pink adobe mansion as talk of a Beverly Hills Freeway grew. Locals, led by the Beverly Hills Improvement Association, oppose a surface route and favor a cut and cover tunnel a mile south under Santa Monica Boulevard. Route details and construction timing remain undecided.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Clifton Webb
Webb
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Rosaland Russell
Lucille Ball
Irving Stone
Hillside
Local church paints over racial hate graffiti on home
The Rev Robert A Rounce and about 20 Sheridan Park Presby terian Church members painted over swastikas racial remarks and a Star of David daubed Thursday night on the white one story home of Mr and Mrs Harold Amos in a predominantly white neighborhood. The action came Sunday as Pastor Rounce urged the community to practice the golden rule.
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Robert A. Rounce
Sheridan Park Presbyterian Church
David
Harold Amos
Rounce
Islura
Conservative Leader Macleod Accepts Bank Directorship
Iain Macleod, former Conservative leader in the House of Commons who opposed Sir Alec Douglas-Home, has been named a director of a London bank. He was also appointed editor of The Spectator last week, a publication with a tradition of political independence.
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Iain Macfeod
Alec Douglas-Home
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London
Macleod
the Spectator
Harold Macmillan
House of Commons
More Beef Feeding Is Predicted
Washington AP reports Agriculture Department forecasts: farmers will feed more beef cattle, fewer hogs, and about the same poultry as last year. Broiler output may rise in 1963-64, domestic demand for broilers may ease due to beef at lower prices, and turkey production is expected to rise slightly.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Farm Bureau names 46 member committee for convention
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation named a 46 member committee to prepare policy recommendations for the federation's November 24 to 26 convention in Little Rock. Members represent every area of the state and major commodity interests. proposals will be submitted to the convention and adopted policies sent to the American Farm Bureau Federation for its December convention.
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Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
Town Votes to Change Name in Levittown NJ
Levittown in central New Jersey votes to adopt the Willingboro name by 3,093 to 2,991 in a Tuesday referendum, reducing the three Levittowns to two. The historic name Willingboro previously served from 1688 to 1939 and the change aligns with the community’s long association with the name.
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New Jersey
Willingboro
Long Island
Pennsylvania
William Levitt and
Johnson Talks on Tariffs at The Hague
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson held a one hour discussion with Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns in The Hague. The Foreign Office said topics covered Western defense cooperation 1964 tariff negotiations and U S support for broader European integration. Johnson and Mrs Johnson will dine with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard at Soestdijk Palace tonight.
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Prince Bernhard
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Flooding Spreads Across Northern Italy Amid Rains
A third day of unceasing rain swelled rivers and tides in twelve towns from Genoa to Milan. Evacuations were ordered as landslides menaced homes. The Ossona River flooded Tortona while Lake Maggiore area towns faced rising waters and blocked highways to Switzerland. One resident drowned in a flooded basement.
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Lake Maggiore
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Young Richard Kept Promise Walks at Four in Dallas
In Dallas, four year old Richard Matlock, born without legs and with a deformed left hand, walked for the first time three days ago after treatment by doctors and therapists at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children. His mother, Windle Matlock, works and hopes for Richard to wear blue jeans when he gets his legs, a promise he made.
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Richard Matlock
Richard
Ife
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
Windle Matlock
Workers in Paris Stage a Strike
Nearly two million public service workers staged a one day warning strike in France today. The action cut electric supply mail deliveries and garbage collection. Many teachers also struck closing several public schools. Unions seek wage and price relief tied to the government anti inflation drive since September. The government offered some wage adjustments but declined to meet all demands.
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France
Cosmonauts Plan Honeymoon Toughing Through Asia
Moscow AP says cosmonauts Valentina and Andrian Nikolayev will honeymoon in India Nepal Ceylon Indonesia and Burma. Tass reports they depart Moscow November 9 for India. Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky and his wife will accompany the couple.
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Andrian Nikolayev
India
Nepal
Ceylon
Indonesia
Burma
Tass
Valery Bykovsky
Arkansas car inspection law urged by dealers group
The Arkansas Automobile Dealers Association urged Monday that a state motor vehicle inspection law be adopted. A board resolution cited 510 Arkansans killed in traffic accidents last year and urged the Arkansas Legislative Council to push for an inspection law in the state legislature. The board also urged installa
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Hot Springs, Ark
Arkansas Automobile Dealers Association
Indonesia Envoy Summoned by the Kennedy Administration
The United States has summoned its ambassador to Indonesia, Howard P. Jones, for consultations in Washington after talks with Philippine diplomats. The move signals a possible tougher line toward President Sukarno amid debates over aid to Indonesia over its stance toward Malaysia.
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Indonesia
Kennedy Administration
Howard P. Jones
United States
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Washington Navy
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Malaysia
Odometer Tamper-Proofing Association Officers Named
In 1965 automobiles a tamper-proof odometer was discussed to prevent mileage indicator turned backs. Harvey Wright of El Dorado was elected president, Joe Bill Hackler of Rogers vice president, and W T Kelly of Little Rock treasurer. Chester Lowe of Little Rock remains executive secretary.
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Harvey Wright
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Joe Bill Hackler
Rogers
W.T. Kelly
Little Rock
Chester Lowe
Soldiers Learn About New Motor Tech at Fort Chaffee
Fort Chaffee soldiers are learning about a multifuel hypercycle combustion engine with no spark plugs that can ignite and run on diesel oil gasoline kerosene or jet fuel. The engine relies on compression of an inflammable liquid to ignite without an external spark.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Fort Chaffee
Rusk to Brief U S Senators on Vietnamese Coup
Secretary of State Dean Rusk briefs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the impact of the South Vietnamese coup on U S policy in Southeast Asia and the Diem overthrow's bearing on Saigon's fight against Communist guerrillas.
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Dean Rusk
U.S
Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
South Viet Nam
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