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...lacking the confidence of the council majority, he would have had to sound them out on any decision other than the most routine. DeGuglielmo probably knew this, and it is unlikely that he really expected to remain as interim manager. The bloc opposing him had waited two years to dismiss him; they had the votes, and, as one councillor put it, "the ball game was over...
...have mobilized, gearing their lives to fighting the American bombing raids. Greene makes no pretense of being "objective" about his reporting. He opposes the war; he opposes the bombing policy. The audience sees the results of American bombing in North Vietnam. You can call it "propaganda," but you cannot dismiss the clear evidence of wholesale destruction which the film portrays...
...elections provided for in the new constitution, the ex-colonels' attitudes appear more activist. They seem not only eager to suppress leftists but also to break the power of the Greek Establishment. Under the new constitution, the monarch will no longer have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers or to promote and assign generals. He will, in fact, have none of the power that made it possible for the Greek throne to create its own mini-aristocracy of loyal retainers...
...attack on Galbraith came during Saturday's meeting of the State Democratic Committee which endorsed President Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Before the vote on the resolution endorsing Johnson, committee member Margaret G. Blizard of Norwood called upon chairman Lester S. Hyman to dismiss Galbraith from the Council...
...Poetry and the Age begs for a criticism that "sounds as if it had been written by a reader for readers, by a human being for human beings," instead of by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines." He could dismiss the pedantries of his associates with a single slash. He ends an essay on Whitman: "I have said so little about Whitman's faults because they are so plain: baby critics who have barely learned to complain of the lack of ambiguity in Peter Rabbit can tell you what is wrong with Leaves of Grass...