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While a non-political city manager holds most of the city's executive power, the mayor is nevertheless much more than a figurehead. Sullivan, for example, will have the controlling vote on both the City Council--which must approve all municipal expenditures and improvements--and the School Committee which controls the community's elementary and secondary schools. The Council can also hire and fire the manager; Sullivan might be only too happy to get rid of the incumbent, John J. Curry '19, and install one of his own supporters, 200 of whom crowded the Council chamber yesterday to cheer...
...Saarlanders' choice became clear, the champions of Europeanization were first to dramatize its impact. Saar Premier Johannes Hoffmann, figurehead of the Saar-for-Europe movement, promptly resigned. From his sickbed in Bonn, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, urgent advocate of a vote for Europeanization, was said to be "deeply disturbed," and he called his Cabinet into emergency session to consider what to do next...
Nikolai Alexandrovich, as the comrades call their Premier, is a marshal of the Soviet Union. With his shoulder boards bouncing and his chestful of medals ajangle, he can cut a fine figurehead of a military man. Yet Marshal Bulganin has never actually commanded anything more formidable than a posse of secret policemen...
...presidential possibilities. Back in his own suite in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, Ike sat down with Herbert Brownell, General Lucius Clay and a few other top advisors to discuss the business at hand. Eisenhower said he had only one thought: he wanted a younger man, not a tired figurehead...
...batteries boomed a 21-gun salute as a trim Brazilian cruiser steamed into Lisbon harbor. Aboard was Brazil's Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side...