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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4--Sen. McClellan (D-Ark.) today called James R. Hoffa's election as president of the Teamsters Union a challenge to Congress to enact laws that will protect rank and file union members from "gangsterism and racketeer control...
Most observers feel that although the legislature has the theoretical right to enact these proposals, both would be held unconstitutional because they would violate the intent of the integration decision here...
...Stanley's later explorations of Equatorial Africa-stirring tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been trapped in the interior during the Mahdi's uprising, was even...
...between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology and the bricks and mortar of the Resmond Street Independent Church...
...military governments, the regime scheduled presidential and congressional elections, set next Feb. 23 as the hard-and-fast date for them. Aramburu barred any official of his government, including himself, from running in the elections. He also called for the election on July 28 of a Constituent Assembly to enact constitutional amendments aimed at curbing presidential powers and strengthening Congress, to head off future dictatorships...