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...intention of implementing the act's provision that water-resources projects costing under $10 million be authorized by congressional public works committees-a short cut that would bypass the possibility of a presidential veto. Discussing this section, the President declared: "The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion. And I intend to turn over this office with all of its responsibilities and powers intact to the next man who sits in this chair...
...strapping, handsome ex-missionary. To the shock of his own United Party, he began to speak softly to the Africans. He managed to ram through a bill giving Southern Rhodesian blacks their first tiny voice in the territory's government-a separate ballot under which they could elect five of the 35 members of parliament. It was not much, but to the settlers it seemed a step toward their worst fear: that their servants would some day rule...
Nearly 32,000 (about 70 per cent) of Cambridge's 46,000 registered voters went to the polls yesterday to elect nine City Councillors, six school committee members, and decide the fate of Preportional Representation. The turnout was about 1000 lower than the total in the municipal elections two years ago. Counting will begin today...
Cambridge voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect nine city councillors, six school committee members, and to decide the future of the electoral system unique to the City--Proportional Representation...
Erhard's amiable way of meeting the challenge was to let the pros blow off steam. Postponing decisions until the week before the Bundestag convened on Oct. 20 to re-elect him Chancellor, he took off for a holiday by the Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany...