School lunch program faces mixed fortunes after veto relief
In Washington the fight over the 25 year old federal school lunch program continues as Congress keeps funding at Oct 1 levels amid protests. Supporters warn of new restrictions next year while critics call the move too cautious and insufficient to reach all needy students.
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Washington
Gerald Cassidy
Senate Select Committee On Nutrition and Human Needs
Nixon
Barbara Bode
The
Children’s Foundation
House
Senate
Congress
Agriculture Department
Asst
Secretary of Agriculture
Richard Lyng
Department
San Francisco
Miss Bode
Jean Mayer
Harvard
American School Food Service Association
Mercury
Aid
Philip Hart
D- Mich
Rodney Leonard
Community Nutrition Institute
Executive Branch
Leonard
George McGovern
Senate Nutrition Committee
Cassidy
High speed transit ideas push into future city plans
A long look at evolving mass transit shows faster trains, buses and automated systems like Skybus and BART as possible solutions to urban congestion. Monorails and new propulsion concepts are proposed, with costs and politics shaping the pace of adoption and future expansion.
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United States
Point A
Point B
John Q
Pen Central
Grand Central Station
New York City
North White Plains
New Brunswick
N. J
Los Angeles
el Monte
Pittsburgh
South Park
San Francisco
Bay Area
BART
Trans-Bay Tunnel
San Francisco Bay
Washington, D. C
WMATA
Washington
District of Columbia
America
California
Harold Gorham
Gorham
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Harvard adopts Western look with California ties at Harvard Yard
Harvard University hires California trained executives expanding its leadership with Robin Schmidt from Santa Barbara and Charles Daly a former White House aide. Schmidt joins as assistant vice president for public affairs under Daly and Hale Champion, signaling a shift in Ivy prestige as non eastern influence grows.
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Copley News Service
Washington
Harvard University
New York Times
The
Washington Post
California
Charles
Cambridge
Harvard Yard
Boston
Veeps
San Diego
Robin Schmidt
Pete McCloskey
Schmidt
McCloskey
Bay Area
Nixon
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles Times
Phillips-Ramsey, Inc
Harvard
Charles A. Daly
Mer Bay Area
Stanford University
Daly
Pete
White House
Lyndon Johnson
Hale Champion
Champion
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Kennedy School of
Stanford
Yale
University of California At Santa Barbara
Red Room Reopens at White House in Brighter Red
The Red Room at the White House reopens after a $100,000 refurbishment funded by wealthy Texans. The room features a brighter Dolley Madison Red tone, new mahogany fittings, red twill satin walls, and Scalamandre fabrics. The Green and Blue Rooms are also being renovated while portraits of recent presidents are repositioned for visibility.
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Washington
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Dolley Madison
Jacqueline Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Richard Mellon
Pittsburgh
Joseph Neff
New York City
Clement Conger
Charles Honore Lannuier
James G. Balling Jr
Uniontown
Conger
Angelica van Buren
Henry Inman
Ture
AEC Eyes More Underground Nuclear Gas Tests
Amchitka island tests produce minimal environmental damage and no further blasts planned there. AEC officials push peaceful uses of nuclear explosives for gas production with Rio Blanco Colorado and Wagon Wheel Wyoming tests eyed for 1973 and beyond, amid environmental protests and safety assurances.
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Amchitka Island
Alaska
Amchitka
Atomic Energy Commission
Aleutian
Bering Sea
Pacific Ocean
AEC
Rio Blanco
Colo
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Utah
United States
Ground Zero
Henry Vermillion
U. S. Supreme Court
Cannikin
Spartan
Cer-Geonuclear, Inc
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Green River
Rocky Mountain
Farmington
N.M
Grand Valley
Nevada
Nixon plan faces unemployment and deficit headwinds
The Nixon administration pursues innovative economic measures while accounting for persistent unemployment and rising labor supply. Forecasters predict a 5 percent plus unemployment rate with a growing budget deficit around 27 billion dollars in 1972, and inflation kept near 3 percent amid Phase 2 price controls and ongoing supply pressures.
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New York
Nixon
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