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...years, lost his political power base in the Norfolk area when five of the eight candidates supported by his organization for the state legislature and local offices were defeated by allies of Virginia's moderate U.S. Senator William Spong. With the power center of the Old Dominion's politics shifting inexorably from the county courthouses to the cities, Spong, whose political thinking is akin to that of progressive Republicans like Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke and Illinois' Percy, is emerging as a Democratic leader to reckon with in the new Virginia...
Some of that gap has already been plugged by other combines. In 1964, London's Midland Bank joined the Commercial Bank of Australia, the Standard Bank of London and the Toronto-Dominion Bank to create the Midland and International Banks Ltd. (capital: $56 million). Three months ago, Britain's Barclays Bank, the Bank of America, Italy's Banca del Lavoro, Germany's Dresdner Bank, Algemene Bank of The Netherlands and Banque Nationale de Paris formed Société Financière Européenne (capital: $7,800,000), with head offices in Paris and Luxembourg...
...Commerce's influence over na tional economic policy, which now is substantively set by the big quadriad of the Administration's Treasury Secretary, Budget Director, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department of Transportation, which stripped Commerce of such major bureaus as the Under Secretaryship of Transportation, Public Roads and the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation...
...brocholi. "A-spare-a-grass. Four pounds for 95 cents. A-spare-a-grass here," yells a short, bouncy vendor with a meaty face and big squashy hands. Rafts of watermelons. Buckets of native cukes--three for just 25 cents. "Hava pruna," shouts a jolly grandmother, holy in her dominion. A tough kid says his McIntosh apples are good, very good. Heads of lettuce topple over onto the peppers. Parsnips look like washed out carrots, and the bananas are disturbingly yellow...
...more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts-for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything we are and everything that we have...