Congress Takes A Holiday As Washington Winds Down
Lawmakers head home for August recess while key bills linger including draft reform revenue sharing welfare and energy programs. Rep Wilbur Mills questions tax burdens while insiders speculate on 1972 presidential prospects amid stalled appropriations.
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Selective Service
Mike Mansfield
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Wilbur Mills
House Appropriations Committee
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Nixon faces complex puzzle in shifting US China ties
The piece weighs the challenges of renewing relations with China as Nixon contemplates a Peking visit. It notes Chou Enlai’s hard line on Taiwan and UN seating, Rogers’ stance on Red China, and the risks of diplomacy versus inevitable conflict if talks fail.
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Taiwan
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Bill Rogers
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General Assembly
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Japan
Pearl Harbor
Chiang
Eisenhower
Seventh Fleet
Boyle's column: miscellaneous home front musings
HAL BOYLE surveys everyday curiosities and quips on education trends, tin can law, earth’s rotation, gender income gaps, Balboa’s bias, water supplies, and a Dietrich quote, mixing humor with brief observations on modern life.
Timely quotes on economy and science from 1960s sources
A collection of brief quotes: John B. Connally Jr. argues against abrupt economic reversal of a trillion-dollar GNP affecting 200 million people. Dr P D McTaggart-Cowan predicts Lake Erie's survival beyond five years despite pessimism. William R Allen analogizes research to confession, linking teaching and research.
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Treasury
John B. Connally Jr
Lake Erie
P. D. McTaggart- Cowan
The
Science Council of Canada
William R. Allen
University of California, Los Angeles
New Faces in Classrooms as Mobility Changes Education
The article notes rising pupil mobility across the United States as families move for work and military transfers. It discusses impacts on schools and teachers, cites studies on adjustment, and describes national efforts to aid mobile students and teachers, including a Uniform Migrant Student Record System and proposed retirement and transfer provisions for teachers.
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Bureau of the Census
New England
Armed Forces
Florida
Texas
California
National Education Association
NEA
Sen
Harrison Williams
D-N.j
Williams
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Redistricting Board set to begin senatorial apportionment
Legislative Redistricting Board will meet August 24 to begin senatorial reapportionment. Gov. Preston Smith urges House redraws and no fiscal excess. Court actions loom as Attorney General seeks swift Supreme Court review of districting rulings. Board aims to prepare both House and Senate plans to avoid a million dollar special session.
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Texas Press Association
Austin
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Preston Smith
House of Representative
Smith
Atty
Crawford Martin
Supreme Court of Texas
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Senate
Ben Barnes
Legislative Redistricting Board
State Supreme Court
Robert W. Calvert
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Supreme Court
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Chicago
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Board of Landscape Architects
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