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Furthermore, McCormack has offered some definite proposals for the next four years, something Volpe has not. Among these are a Department of Justice which would gather within one framework the state's far-flung legal offices and law enforcement agencies. He has also urged the complete implementation of the Willis-Harrington Report recommendations and the creation of a Department of Urban Affairs to coordinate federal, state, and local programs...
DeGuglielmo has already expressed an interest in centralizing all of Cambridge's far-flung health and medical facilities under a single department of Health. However, he said that if the report recommends otherwise, he will drop such plans...
...Colonial Secretaries could keep track of their far-flung charges. A lady at a London banquet in 1852 once asked Colonial Secretary John Pakington where the Virgin Islands were. He is supposed to have replied imperiously: "As far as possible, my dear lady, from the Isle of Man." A President of the Orange Free State in South Africa reported his experience in 1876 with another Colonial Secretary who "unfolded a pocket map and begged that I would point out to him where the Orange Free State...
...KTBC's far-flung service earned the widest applause. "We are not normally a blood-and-guts operation," Spelce hastened to explain afterwards. "This is a state government, state university-conscious town. It was the first time in years we have shown a closeup of a dead body." But, he also said, "this was a highly unusual...
...high, far-flung orbit also placed the coupled craft in position to begin a rendezvous with a second target: Agena 8, lifeless but still riding on a nearly circular orbit after its role in the aborted Gemini 8 mission four months earlier. At first, last week's Gemini-Agena was 3,220 miles ahead of Agena 8; during the next several hours, the dead target ship-revolving around the earth every 99 minutes, compared to 101 minutes for Gemini-Agena-slowly passed the sleeping astronauts...