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...that talent to personal use by writing the legislation to define his first two state-park posts. The jobs had power not only to oversee parks but also to build parkways and take land by eminent domain. Moses crushed opposition, polarized issues, bamboozled the state government into giving him money, spent it to start vast public projects, then blackmailed the legislature into giving him more cash by threatening to blame it for leaving the job uncompleted...
...principles state: "CTOC seeks alliances with labor, black and third world, women's, G.I., student and neighborhood groups around points of agreement in our programs. CTOC also welcomes the membership of small homeowners. Small homeowners, the tenant group says, "can be evicted through the state's power of eminent domain or through foreclosures. We stand for tenant unity with small homeowners...
Between the Nixon resignation and the Cyprus crisis, Henry Kissinger stood in his huge domain on the seventh floor at the State Department and actually let his mind wander from statecraft. "What do you think of this rug?" he asked a visitor, pointing at a handsome Oriental that had been laid over the broad and lifeless expanse of beige G.I. carpeting. "Nancy thought I needed something to break things up. It's a little too busy...
...Senate, where he had served for 24 tumultuous, useful years. Morse's battles had been a tonic to him; the harsher the better. Mostly he raged at conservatives, who, as he saw it, threatened civil liberties, or at special interests that wanted to encroach on the public domain. But he also feuded with friends. Some of his meanest gibes were directed at people who thought that they were close to him. After breaking with Richard Neuberger, whom he had helped win a Senate seat in Oregon, Morse simply would not let up the attack. When Neuberger returned...
...Mexican who spent four years studying theology Rome's Gregorian University, vaulted to eminence from a parish priesthood in Albuquerque. Sanchez is a pleasantly informal clergyman who has already stirred up his predominantly Hispanic Roman Catholic archdiocese in New Mexico. He has requested that the churches in his domain contribute a Sunday's offering to Cesar Chavez's farm workers...