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...action will be. McGovern sweeps into Miami Beach counting on a first-ballot nomination, capping one of the most extraordinary success sagas in U.S. politics. The first to declare for the nomination, he was dismissed as a one-issue candidate, lacking charisma or recognition, a good Senator about to enact the Peter Principle by reaching for a role beyond him. But he had helped write the rules for the nominating process, and his young cadres knew how to use them. They outorganized everybody in sight; McGovern won the key victories and, in the end in California and New York...
...months from now, serious talk of relaxed controls can be expected. Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson hopes that the rate of inflation will be low enough to allow controls to be scrapped when the congressional authorization for them expires next April. He would prefer that Congress not even enact stand-by power for the President to reimpose controls in event of emergency because, as he says, "there would then be a tendency to reapply controls even if there is a mild resurgence in the rate of inflation...
...there has long been an important exception. Grand juries, courts and certain government agencies have been able to compel testimony by using the threat of a contempt sentence, after a witness is granted immunity from prosecution for all matters discussed. In 1970 the Nixon Administration persuaded Congress to enact a narrower immunity provision-a step quickly followed by at least a dozen states-assuring a witness immunity only from use of his testimony itself and of any evidence derived from it. If sufficient evidence could be found that did not develop from a witness's protected statements, he could...
...Massachusetts Senate this week reaffirmed its decision to enact a bill eliminating Cambridge's system of voting by proportional representation...
...burst of enthusiasm for the salvation of the American environment, President Nixon urged Congress last year to enact a 14-point program of reforms. Members of Congress introduced a score of bills of their own to regulate everything from strip mining to the location of power plants. Yet not a single major piece of environmental legislation passed both houses. While everybody wanted a cleaner America, it appeared, not everybody was ready to pay for it, at least not when the economy was lagging...