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...state business. Undertaking an investigation, a committee of the Republican-controlled house of representatives asked the Kelly agency for a list of who got what subagent payments. The agency balked, obtained a court injunction barring the committee from subpoenaing records. Then, two weeks ago, the house authorized the chamber as a whole to pursue the investigation. The Cave-In. The Kelly agency caved in, released a list of 326 subagents who got pieces of the commission cake. Total subagent payments over the past four years came to $367,000. John M. Golden, Connecticut's Democratic national committeeman...
Michigan's Governor was in town to speak to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -and the businessmen liked what they heard. They gave Romney standing ovations both before and after his speech, repeatedly interrupted his address with applause. Romney preached his own gospel of individual inspiration and citizen participation in politics. Said he: "The big issue 100 years ago was whether the excess sovereignty of the states was going to destroy the Union and the Constitution. The big issue today is whether the excess concentration of federal power and sovereignty is going to destroy state, local and individual freedom...
...House chamber in Concord was jammed by the time New Hampshire's Democratic Governor John King appeared. King wasted no time. "A few minutes ago," he said, "I signed House Bill 47." He had, he explained, signed the bill because he felt that the citizens of New Hampshire wanted it, and "I am unwilling to set myself up as a Solomon or a Caesar in the holy assumption that my views are more intelligent or discerning or moralistic than those of our people." What King had done was to approve the U.S.'s first legal lottery since...
...indeed. Fanfani already had news of the massive gains of Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, who improved their position as the country's second largest party (after the Christian Democrats), won 25% of the entire nation's votes, and 26 new seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Reds now hold a total of 166 of the Chamber's 630 places, compared with the Christian Democrats...
...number of parts in a piston engine) and the fact that it could deliver high power while using almost any fuel that will burn in a test tube-from kerosene to peanut oil. Its basic works are uncomplicated. It sucks air through an intake and compresses it in a chamber into which fuel is sprayed and ignited by a spark plug (see diagram). The expanding gases drive one turbine wheel that spins the air compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these...