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...Bracken Lee, Republican governor of Utah, is a blunt, stubborn individualist with a passion for economy. He has cut off state aid to such projects as the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and has slashed the state's social-security program. He was the only governor in the nation who refused to declare a United Nations Day. He has consistently fought any increase in taxes, no matter what the need might be. But of all the stands that Lee has taken, none has stirred such storms as his atti tude towards Utah's public schools...
...pact with the U.S. The law-bars Communists from registering to vote; the pact deters exporting Chilean copper to the U.S.S.R. and its military satellites. Left-wingers have urged President Carlos Ibáñez to oppose the law and pact, but he has refused. Last week, in a blunt speech, he told...
...back from a vacation, held a rare press conference to explain to foreign correspondents that the Russian note had been "misunderstood." At that point, a new Russian note could have been predicted. When it arrived last week, it bore the marks of Molotov's skillful hand. Dropping the blunt demand of Nov. 3 that any East-West conference 1) include Red China, and 2) be preceded by abandonment of NATO and EDC, the Kremlin declared itself ready to take part in a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting...
According to observers, the fracas started about 7:30 p.m. in front of Cahaly's, when the Harvard student pulled out, and just bumped the Belmont man's car. An argument ensued, and the Harvard man reportedly belted the man with a "blunt instrument." He then rushed away...
...G.O.P. senators, pained at such blunt tactics against one of their own, wavered and weasled and, after an unhappy, three-hour meeting last week, reached a face-saving compromise: Wicks would be allowed to resign sometime before the start of the next regular session Jan. 6. Wicks continued to preside as the senate passed a legislative reapportionment bill and moved toward adjournment; not a word was said on the floor about his removal...