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...selling goods to farmers and handling farm products on their way to urban markets. The emergence of large-scale, highly mechanized farming has decreased the number of farmers. And the ever expanding network of highways has made it possible for farm goods in trucks and farmers in automobiles to bypass formerly flourishing small towns...
...strokes (doctors differ widely about the proportion) occur not in the brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch, or putting in a patch graft to widen the artery. But evaluation of stroke victims' recovery is so difficult that no fewer than 22 medical centers are now doing DeBakey operations and comparing the results with the fate of unoperated patients. It will...
...French constitution, the 15th since the Revolution, gives De Gaulle far more; it contains few of the checks and balances that safeguard U.S. freedoms. His power of dissolution is a mighty club over the legislature. France has no independent judiciary empowered to reject unconstitutional measures. Moreover, the President can bypass a balky Assembly at will by taking controversial issues to the people; he has already used the referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy," constitutional lawyers object that the right to answer oui or non to a government's proposals is no substitute for democratic...
...referendum five weeks ago, the French approved de Gaulle's proposal to elect the president by popular vote and empower him to dissolve parliament or, through referendums, to bypass its man-date...
...revolt himself, by his plan to change the constitution of the Fifth Republic so that future French Presidents would be elected by popular vote rather than by a privileged electorate of 80,000 parliamentarians and municipal and departmental officials. To bring about this change, De Gaulle decided to bypass Parliament and take the issue directly to the people in a referendum scheduled...