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...where are they running? With an almost theatrical sense of timing, the final report of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects-a special five-man board appointed three years ago by the Liberal government of Louis St. Laurent-came out last week with a thoughtful, well-documented prediction on what Canada may be in 1980. The commission's general conclusion: a largely urban, industrialized land of 27 million (v. 17 million today), a gross national product of $80 billion (v. $30 billion), a living standard higher by two-thirds...
...meatpacking, oil and aviation city of Wichita, Kans. (pop. 250,000), there is no better entertainment, to judge from the attendance, than the weekly meetings of the five-man nonpartisan city commission. Spectators throng city hall to witness the give and take of sewerage, highway problems and business licensing laws, and frequently the meetings are broadcast to overflow crowds in the corridors. Three TV stations film every byplay, five radio stations record every word of what Wichita fans call "the Tuesday night fights." One reason for the excitement: a furious feud between Commissioner John Stevens, 47, Wichita-born, of Lebanese...
Doubling in brass as police chief, Mayor James A. Grimsley and his five-man force blew the whistle on hundreds of motorists, in less than a year collected $52,422.23 in speeding fines and forfeitures. When the anguished cries of Highway 27's motorists brought on a Dade County grand jury investigation and forced him out of office as police chief, Grimsley had a worthy successor. In twelve months new Chief William C. Geronimo and the Hialeah Gardens whistle-blowers racked...
Last week a five-man Supreme Court majority (Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom Clark and William J. Brennan) handed down a decision that seemed to jostle McCulloch v. Maryland in the eyes of the four dissenting members (Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan, Harold Burton, Charles E. Whittaker). At issue: a property tax levied by the city of Detroit on the Murray Corp., a subcontractor manufacturing airplane parts for the U.S. Air Force. The city assessor counted as taxable property some $2,000,000 worth of parts, materials, etc., which were chargeable...
...continent where general-presidents have all too often tried to perpetuate themselves in office. Aramburu's conduct had an exemplary effect well beyond the borders of Argentina. Items: ¶Colombia's five-man military junta, which will hold an election March 16. says: "We shall turn over our powers to a civilian President at 3 p.m.. Aug. 7. 1958." ¶Venezuela's provisional President. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. promises elections for a constituent assembly before the year...