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...council-appointed city manager controls all of the city's administrative powers and the title of mayor just serves as an elevated podium for one of the nine city councilors. He chairs meetings, cuts opening ribbons and serves as a figurehead...
...that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship, a fantastic poet's girl, a sort of corn-goddess." Of her marriage to Dylan, Caitlin wrote in Leftover Life to Kill, "We lived almost separate lives, though physically close, and passed each other with a detached phrase on strictly practical matters; as though we were...
...severely impeded its development as a nation after it achieved independence from Britain in 1962. For a while, Milton Obote, as Prime Minister, had an uneasy partnership with the last Kabaka (King) of Buganda kingdom, Edward Mutesa II, the dapper, Cambridge-educated "King Freddie," who became Uganda's figurehead President. But in 1966 Obote seized the presidency for himself and crushed the Kabaka's followers; King Freddie escaped to London, where he died penniless three years later. Obote never really succeeded in uniting the contending Ugandan tribes, and was easily overthrown in January 1971 in an army coup...
McCarthy: Unlike the other opposition parties running national campaigns this year, the McCarthy campaign is based solely on McCarthy himself, with no effort to put members up for local election. With McCarthy as a figurehead, the organizers have gained increasing support, mainly from disaffected Democrats and independents. Perhaps because he is a national figure--unlike, say, Tom Anderson of the American party--McCarthy has had less trouble getting press coverage than other minor party candidates, and may get as much as 5 per cent of the vote. He won't get elected, and probably won't even get any votes...
When that might happen is anybody's guess. A mild monarchy under the rule of the figurehead King Bhumibol Andulydej, Thailand is less notable for its democratic tradition than for its periodic military putsches and bottomless corruption. Yet at the height of the Viet Nam War, the U.S. shipped squadrons of bombers and some 50,000 troops to this California-size land, making it a fortress of American power. As the war in neighboring Indochina began to wind down, riotous Bangkok students overthrew Dictator Thanom Kit-tikachorn in 1973 and ushered in a neutralist government that requested U.S. withdrawal...