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Sen. John F. Kennedy, in Los Angeles during his 1960 presidential campaign, pledges a Democratic Congress will raise teacher salaries and fund school construction in 1961. He criticizes Nixon for relying on Eisenhower, avoiding debate, and politically timing B-70 bomber funds release.
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By GEOFFREY GOULD
LOS ANGELES, (P)-Sen. John Kennedy today pledged that next year a Democratic Congress and President "will enact a bill to raise teacher salaries."
The presidential candidate also said: "One of the first items on the Democratic agenda in 1961 is the passage of an adequate bill for school construction."
He outlined these promises and others in the education field in a talk prepared for a "Key to Victory" breakfast, before hopping south to San Diego and then north to San Jose and San Francisco.
A new and mocking note toward Vice President Richard M. Nixon again entered Kennedy's tone yesterday, a kaleidoscopic day that brought him here from the east coast for a mammoth downtown motorcade at noon.
As he did the day before, Kennedy taunted Nixon for bringing President Eisenhower into the campaign in the closing days before the election next Tuesday.
At a rally in Long Beach, Kennedy said: "Mr. Eisenhower is not a candidate. Mr. Nixon is. And if he can't stand up to the American people, if he won't come and meet me in a fifth debate, how is he going to stand up to Mr. Khrushchev?"
Kennedy issued a statement saying the administration's decision to release an additional $155 million for development of the B-70 supersonic bomber was a "transparent political maneuver."
"That the Republican administration waits until a week before the election to release the funds speaks for itself," Kennedy said.
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Los Angeles, California; Long Beach; San Diego; San Jose; San Francisco
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1960 (Election Next Tuesday; Promises For 1961)
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Sen. Kennedy pledges Democratic support for raising teacher salaries and school construction bills in 1961 during a campaign breakfast in Los Angeles. He mocks Nixon for involving Eisenhower, refusing a fifth debate, and releasing B-70 bomber funds as a political move before the election.