Word: councill
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...elders discuss and discuss a proposition until they are in unanimous agreement. There was no vote, because votes produce majorities and minorities, and such division of the people leads to unhappiness and opposition. Under Sukarno's new conception, the elected Parliament would be in tandem with a National Council, selected by the President, and containing representatives of the various groups in the nation: youth, business, labor, women, the arts and professions...
Explaining graciously that business needs "a shot in the arm," Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. last month urged the city council to repeal Baltimore's tax on newspaper and TV advertising (TIME, Nov. 18), which Mayor Tommy had himself rammed through last fall. Last week, while the council mulled over the mayor's proposal (which would also give a shot in the arm to Democrat D'Alesandro's campaign for the U.S. Senate), Maryland's general assembly beat Tommy to the gun by passing a Senate-approved bill outlawing ad taxes...
...coverage of politics, Jackson has been a candidate for office in seven primary and four general elections (and lost only three primaries), served six years each as a state senator and a Democratic central committeeman. He has bagged appointive plums ranging from chairmanship of Ohio's Highway Construction Council (at $50 a day) to membership on the Strip Mine Commission. While drawing $8,000 a year from his Vindicator job, nimble Newsman Jackson since last May has helped make ends meet by working four days a week as an $8,400-a-year member of Ohio's Pardon...
Died. Frederick M. Dearborn Jr., 46, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Security Operations Coordination, watchdog over the implementation of National Security Council decisions; of shock and acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Washington. Educated at Harvard and a lieutenant colonel in World War II, Boston Lawyer Dearborn joined the White House Staff last...
...lieu of this plan, the World Affairs Council then made arrangements notifying the membership that a meeting at the International Student Center would be open for them. Nicholas Nyary Executive Director World Affairs Council...