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Helou seems far from finished. Next on his lengthy list are top men in the government ministries, the customs, the police and the military. He may even take on the faction-ridden, absentee-prone Parliament itself, whose members spend much of their time lobbying to place themselves or friends in key civil service slots. Remarked one member of Parliament last week, more (at this stage) in wonder than in rage: "The tame man we elected has turned into a tiger...
...Italians, or about one-fourth of the electorate, still vote Red in general elections-and the next elections might not be very far away if the nation's latest political crisis is not settled soon. Italy was without a government, thanks to the small Christian Democratic faction which voted down Premier Aldo Moro fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 28). And though President Giuseppe Saragat had asked Moro to reform his Cabinet, the days passed with no news of his success...
...Kelsey became a heroine for keeping thalidomide off the U.S. market, and after Dr. Joseph F. Sadusk Jr., with a good record as a medical educator and a practicing physician, took over as head of FDA's Bureau of Medicine (TIME, March 13, 1964). But now the Kelsey faction is warring on Sadusk, who is also the target of Representative Lawrence H. Fountain's Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee...
Edward A. Crane '35, a member of the pro-Curry faction, told mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., the leader of the DeGuglielmo majority, that "you and your colleagues are going to be pulverized at the hearing...
When several history tutors in Winthrop House began talking last Spring about changing the Department's honors program and tutorial, they found they were discontented for different reasons. One faction wanted to make the honors program smaller and more selective by weeding out those seniors who had little to gain from writing a thesis. Since the Gill Plan was passed by the Faculty in 1961, loosening requirements for honors, the number of honors candidates in History had climbed upward sharply. The year before the Gill Plan went into effect, 53 per cent of History seniors were admitted to the honors...