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...last summer, he suspected everyone of plotting against him. He packed off his Cabinet for three weeks of enforced "self-study" while he attended a Commonwealth conference in Lon don, turned the government over to three hand-picked cronies in his absence. Ever suspicious of his army, he fired its commanders when he heard rumors that they had been "talking against" him, took command of the army himself. Then, three months ago, he announced plans to form a "people's militia," the obvious purpose of which was to neutralize the army if it tried to move against...
...debate's end, seven of the nine councillors signed a Commonwealth bill that would allow the City to raise its hospital debt limit $3 million above its current $6 million level...
...Commonwealth bill was signed by the five councillors who had voted down Vellucci's motion plus Councillors Walter J. Sullivan and Thomas H. D. Mahoney. Crane and Vellucci kept their pens in their pockets...
Rutstein applied for the grant, awarded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, in December. He plans to use the money to work on a new book, Medicine of the Future, which will deal with the social forces that are "pushing medical care into new patterns," Rutstein said...
...pound of silver into 20 shillings and 240 pence, but everyone agrees that the system is a bedeviling bother. It irritates international bankers, confuses tourists and even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted in 1955, South Africa in 1961. The Bahamas will switch this year, New Zealand next year. Even Britain...