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...pound. The reporter turned up a more bizarre personality than he seemed to realize. As he discussed the number of stray dogs he must gas to death, the "dog warden" blurted out: "It's the damned people that I'd like to put in the gas chamber...
...only other argument against calling a special meeting is that the Senate Chamber is presently being repainted and redecorated. But the Senators of Massachusetts could certainly function effectively in their spacious reading room, the Hall of Flags, or even Fanueil Hall...
...stake were 23 seats in the 66-member federal Senate, all 409 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, plus all 22 state legislatures, local councils and municipal mayorships. Under Brazil's new government-decreed two-party system, voters could either cast their ballot for the government's ARENA candidate or for the opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello...
...Dorados who organized as lobbying associations have pointed to his more glorious exploits. Last summer the Government named a dam in Durango after him. So it was only logical for someone to raise the question of why Pancho's name was not in gold letters in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, next to those of Zapata and the other official patriots. When legislation to engrave his name came up in the Chamber fortnight ago, one deputy objected that Pancho's name would more fittingly be inscribed in "the psychiatric annex of the penitentiary." Another cried...
With more than half of the votes counted by week's end, ARENA appeared to have won 260 or more seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 17 or 18 seats in the Senate; it was also leading in 19 out of the 22 state legislatures, as well as in most of the municipal councils and mayoralties...