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President Johnson's conservation program will presumably get under way in mid-May at a White House conference on natural beauty under the chairmanship of Laurance Rockefeller, chairman of the New York State Council of Parks and citizen conservationist No. 1 (he has personally presented the nation with some 6,000 acres of national-park land...
Wagner said, was a legislative committee chairmanship with a $10,000 expense allowance, or "lulu," as New York legislators call it, and a $26,000-a-year state court judgeship to legislators Wagner was backing for the leadership posts-on condition that they withdraw their candidacies...
...arcane parlance of the Albany legislature, a lulu is a tax-free $1,000 allowance that each legislator draws "in lieu of" expense funds, in addition to his $10,000 annual salary. A double lulu presumably would be $2,000. But a committee chairmanship had also been offered, Wagner said, and as every New York legislator knows, some chairmanships entitle the holder to extra lulus. In this case, according to Wagner, the double lulu amounted...
...five-vote majority was the very best Burch could hope for in the 132-member National Committee. Later Miller spent another two hours urging Barry to accept Bliss. At last Barry agreed, but he insisted that Bliss must make a public statement that he would not consider taking the chairmanship unless Goldwater supported...
...restoration of integration of politics and religion." Sure enough, he was talking about the Panchen Lama, on whom so many Communist hopes had been pinned. Last week the Panchen was not only out of his job in the Red Chinese parliament, but had been stripped of his Tibetan chairmanship as well and forced to confess "antipeople, anti-state and anti-socialist activities." To Asian Buddhists, many of whom nurture the illusion that they can cope with the Communists, the Panchen's fate was fair warning that toleration of local religions lasts only so long as it serves Marxist ends...