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...Wagner's inability to decide on a man to fill Manhattan's borough presidency, automatically vacated when Hulan Jack was convicted and received a suspended sentence on charges of conflict of interest and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Still hesitating, Wagner postponed an election meeting with Manhattan councilmen, using the weather as an excuse. Outcome of this week's snow-checked meeting, with both Wagner and De Sapio predicting victory for their candidates, was pretty foggy...
Residents of Cambridge, joined by commuters from outlying towns like Paddington have complained bitterly to legislators and councilmen about the inconvenience of standing in cold, rain, and snow while waiting for coach buses...
...more than the Post or the Chronicle, the Press fills the role of municipal watchdog-with a tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward...
...first gingerly experiment with popular elections since suspending his country's parliamentary regime 15 months ago, Pakistan's Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan last week got an Elvis Presley-like response. Functioning as a kind of electoral college, close to 80,000 recently elected village councilmen were allowed to vote yes or no to the question: "Have you confidence in the President, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan?" No less than 95.6% put their approving mark beside a smiling multi-clad picture of the field marshal. Those who did not trust the field marshal had the choice of checking...
Songs of Welcome. The junketing World Councilmen ranged from Moscow to Leningrad, to Riga in satellite Latvia, to Etchmiadzin in Soviet Armenia, for two days of talks with Vazgen I, Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Church, within view of Mt. Ararat, one of the traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...