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Defying the trend on the other networks toward the short and snappy, CBS opened three hourlong dramas. By default, Slattery's People is the best, even if it is a kind of provincial Advise and Consent, taking its milieu-as so many TV shows vulturistically do-from an earlier showbiz success. Slattery, played by Richard Crenna, is a state legislator. The story last week did stir up an at least plausible atmosphere of cameral politics. Slattery turned the chamber into a courtroom, fingering an older senator who had deliberately quashed a bill that jeopardized his personal financial interests...
...starts a year, new antimonopoly legislation, and an overhaul of taxation and social security systems. The difference is one of philosophy and emphasis, with Labor predictably arguing for a stronger state hand in things, the Tories countering that "the question is: How is the planning to be done? By consent or by compulsion...
...Grudging Consent. It was up to Makarios to 1) yield to the Turkish threat, 2) try to negotiate some concession in return for yielding, or 3) stand pat in the hope that Turkey was bluffing or would be dissuaded by the U.S. or through fear of Russian and Greek intervention...
...week's end, Turkey grudgingly gave its consent to a Greek request that the troop rotation be postponed. Archbishop Makarios flew blithely off to Alexandria to confer with an old friend and ally, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. His reported mission: to secure Nasser's permission for Greek and Russian fighter planes to use Egyptian bases in the event of a Turkish invasion of Cyprus...
...utilities commission reserved decision, but McDaniel has grounds for hope. One is a commission promise to investigate the matter further. Another is the Supreme Court's 1951 decision (Breard v. Alexandria) upholding local laws against door-to-door peddling without the homeowner's consent. Said the court: "Opportunists for private gain cannot be permitted to arm themselves with an acceptable principle, such as that of a right to work, a privilege to engage in interstate commerce, or a free press, and proceed to use it as an iron standard to smooth their path by crushing the living rights...