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...reduce Negro unemployment, it asked for establishment of job training and placement centers in all Negro neighborhoods, state legislation to force big employers to report how many Negroes they have on the payroll. >To meet persistent Negro charges of police oppression, it recommended strengthening the Los Angeles' figurehead Board of Police Commissioners and creation of an inspector general's office to investigate citizens' complaints, Even before the commission finished its report, Chairman McCone predicted that it would anger as many people as it pleased. It did. Civil rights leaders accused it of superficiality, said it skirted around...
...help, he said, because "I will not repudiate any support which comes to me on the basis of interest in peace." But from the start of the campaign it was plain that the Progressive leadership was interested solely in exploiting Wallace's popular appeal. They had a willing figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance to Soviet pressure on Berlin, he became Pravda's favorite American. Wallace won only 1,157,000 votes out of 49 million, trailed Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey and Strom Thurmond...
...Bella's old cronies proved more docile. Only two Cabinet ministers followed him into prison; the others eagerly joined Boumedienne. One former exile, Abdul Hafid Boussouf, returned to take a post in the Defense Ministry, and ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas might act as figurehead Premier of the new government...
Ready to Go. There is something wrong, though. The harsh truth is that no one-not even Joe Levine or the greatest possible Volta-could turn Carroll Baker into the luscious figurehead of sex that she is advertised to be. She is simply not the type. In The Carpetbaggers, she wears all sorts of skin-fitting slacks and radioactive underclothes, but she always looks like a suburban mother who is not quite well. The suggestion of Mann Act joy that she achieved in Baby Doll has been rinsed away. Capping her head with platinum has cheapened but not ripened...
Thus last week General Nguyen Khanh promoted himself from Premier to President and took over virtually absolute power - at least in theory. He promulgated a new constitution abolishing his previous post of Premier as well as that of figurehead Chief of State, which had been occupied by Khanh's predecessor. General Big Minh, the man who had fronted the original coup against Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. To avoid embarrassing comparisons. Khanh ordered his new title rendered in Vietnamese as Chu Tich (Chairman) rather than Tonf> Thont> (President), the title used by Diem...