Still straining toward adjournment, the U.S. Congress last week:
>Restored, in the Senate, $533 million worth of House cuts in the Kennedy foreign aid program. As sent to a Senate-House conference committee, the Senate measure called for a total appropriation of $4,196,600,000. For President Kennedy, who had described military-economic aid as the most important piece of legislation to go before the current session, this represented a major triumph. Of the total Senate appropriation, $1.7 billion would go for direct military assistance to uncommitted as well as Allied nations, $1.2 billion for...
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