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...State of Flux. The job, as previous Secretary John Connor said after resigning his post, is "in a state of flux." One reason why Connor quit after two frustrating years was the steady diminution of Commerce's influence over na tional economic policy, which now is substantively set by the big quadriad of the Administration's Treasury Secretary, Budget Director, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department...
...more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...
...unanswered question is how current can an encyclopedia be in a Roman Catholic Church that is in the midst of continuing turmoil and flux. Father Whalen admits the problem and that more than 1,000 entries had to be changed as a result of decrees enacted by the Second Vatican Council. To stay up to date, the editors hope to issue periodic supplements similar to those put out by the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...means that the membership feels an overall identity with the free society. The military is an autocracy in which actions are dictated but not attitudes; it may be an unpleasant experience for the free citizen (and perhaps that is a good thing) but the constant in and out flux fosters a perspective without which the military would lose touch, to the ultimate harm...
Since Amália performs only infrequently in Portugal, fado has lately fallen into a state of flux. Many of the old fado taverns, looking for the tourist dollar, are pushing pop fado, an attempt to internationalize the art by adding drums and clarinet to the traditional guitar accompaniment. Its chief exponent is sunny Maria da Fe, 24, who sings such classics as It's as Empty and Cold as My Heart to a sizzling jazz beat. Pop fado has also given rise to such variations as the upbeat "new-look fado" and "fado blues." And at the University...