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Last week the Congress also: — Approved, in the Senate, a bill authorizing $5.2 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration program in 1966, including $242 million to carry forward the Gemini program and $2.97 billion for the Apollo man-on-the-moon program. The bill now goes to a Senate-House conference committee for adjustment of relatively minor dollar differences. >Passed, in the House, a $2.08 billion appropriations bill providing 1966 operating funds for several federal departments and agencies. About $82 million less than the President requested, the bill provides $388 million for the State Department, $370 million for the Justice Department, $889 million for the Commerce Department, $81 million for federal courts, and $171 million for the U.S. Information Agency. — Approved, in the Senate, a resolution to permit Years of Lightning, Day of Drums, a U.S. Information Agency film on the life of President Kennedy, to be shown at the 25th reunion of Kennedy's Harvard class next week. Congressional approval is required for USIA films to be shown in the U.S.
* The six: Republicans John F. Baldwin of California and Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, Democrats Charles S. Joelson of New Jersey, Paul C. Jones of Missouri, John O. Marsh Jr. and Howard W. Smith of Virginia.