Word: direct
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...Washington rules on a "backgrounder," reporters may report what was said without direct attribution to the public official who said it. Stretching the rule just a bit, reporters at the Lindsay session filed stories detailing his views and crediting their information to the mayor's "political friends." When the stories appeared, Lindsay said testily that there was "no basis" for them. He added: "When I have something to say on this, I will talk for myself...
...Magraw's is not the only scheme to increase student power or influence. Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who agrees with Magraw that "students should have a more direct and public access to some stage of the decision-making process," has said, "It may be a good idea for policy making bodies to listen formally to student opinion." In this connection, Dean Ford's dinner with the HUC to which the Masters are invited has interesting potential. It will be by far the closest thing to a meeting between the HUC and the Committee on Houses that has ever...
...From top Administration officials, notably Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Budget Director Charles Schultze, it received no satisfaction. Instead, Schultze taunted the committee with talk of wholesale cuts that would inevitably cripple popular programs such as health services. This the committee regarded as political flimflam. Rumors circulated of a direct offer from the White House-apparently unknown to Fowler and Schultze-to match any tax increase with spending cuts up to some $7 billion. Mills is known to be skeptical that any such proposition will materialize...
...ushered 15 visitors into his darkened living room. "We have only five minutes," he said. "Let us not stay here too long." Then the last constitutionally appointed Premier of Greece, who was overthrown, imprisoned and later released after the April 21 army coup, broke his long silence with a direct, head-on attack on Greece's military rulers...
Spain has not held a direct parliamentary election since the Civil War engulfed it in 1936. Last week, as one of several liberalizing steps taken recently by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the country prepared for at least a token return to democratic rule. It opened a national campaign that will end Oct. 10 when Spaniards take the unaccustomed step of going to the polls...