May 28, 1969

Sen Mansfield backs tax but sees chances for its enactment 'only fair'

NYC antipoverty program sources rept Fed Govt will give additional $2-million grant to city's Neighborhood Youth Corps summer program; city has appropriated $2-million for program

he loses runoff; tally; illus with wife voting

Mayor Lindsay scores dual admissions program as a 'quota system', urges its rejection by Faculty Sen and Higher Educ Bd, news conf; dean of students Prof Paster, who backs program and denies it is a quota system, resigns as dean; will remain prof of educ; cites pol pressures; Procaccino gives Lindsay petition signed by 1,456 students demanding 'only students capable of meeting acad standards be admitted'; says some students taking this stand were assaulted; Lindsay urges SEEK program expansion and Educ Bd plan to expand community colls by '75 as way to aid under-privileged; Faculty Sen exec com chmn Prof Bellush says sen may consider alternative programs

Pres Nixon, in message to Cong, proposes legis to convert PO Dept into a Govt-owned but self-sustaining corp with ltd Cong control; Nixon, at White House briefing, says he regards proposal as 'one of the most significant proposals that would be made during entire period of this Adm'; he lists 3 major improvements that, he says, would flow from the reorgn; improvements listed; basic reforms under reorgn proposal detailed