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...last September a state commission recommended that the Commonwealth buy all 12 acres of their repair yards and code as many as are needed for the library to the government...
...beyond the Great Dividing Range, running down witchetty grubs and wallabies from Birdsville to Alice Springs. When intercepted, the abos tended to be surly, not because of any contempt for civilized counting procedures, but because a 1901 constitutional amendment demands that they be tallied not as "people of the Commonwealth" but rather as part of the natural resources...
...Silver set up his program with $253,998 from New York's Commonwealth Fund.* Only registered nurses with a master's degree in public-health nursing are eligible. (Nurse Stearly had also had two rugged Peace Corps years in Honduras.) Once accepted, they spend four months at the University of Colorado's medical center. They put in time at the well-baby clinics and the screening and emergency clinics; they get basic training in child psychiatry, pediatric neurology, pediatric orthopedics, mental retardation, eye, ear, nose and throat complaints-all of the countless ills that young flesh...
Among U.S. allies, reactions ranged from cheers to tears. The British Commonwealth's two Harolds-Britain's Prime Minister Wilson and Australia's Prime Minister Holt-found themselves at opposite ends of the spectrum. Wilson, harried by a flatulent left wing that even deplores Washington's support of the pound sterling, declared that "we must dissociate ourselves from the bombings" but stoutly reiterated his fundamental support for U.S. war aims...
Volpe's handling of the Sales Tax issue is cited to illustrate that Republicans can be as determined and aggressive as Democrats while conducting themselves in a more statesman-like manner. And Richardson's transformation of the lieutenant governor's office from the residence of the Commonwealth's ribbon-cutter to the policy-making center for many of the state's health, education and welfare programs is offered as a sign of Republican imagination...