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...statewide office, has more than Boyle's candidacy to hearten him. He has received the endorsement of the state's labor organizations in a move that was more anti-Kohler than it was pro-Proxmire. He can also count on the return to the fold of Democrats who filled out Republican primary ballots, voted for Kohler to lessen the chance of a conservative Republican's winning. Kohler forces, who had expected to win in a walk, were running scared. "Every vote for Boyle," warned a Kohler lieutenant ominously, "is a vote for Proxmire...
...boost only an emergency lift. For the long haul they argue that at least a 10% increase is necessary to preserve the air fleet which the nation's security and economic well-being demands. The alternatives, say the airmen, are two: either the weakest airlines will fold and the middling ones merge, concentrating the air-transport industry, like Detroit's automakers, into a few giant companies, or U.S. airlines will be forced once again to come begging for big subsidies such as those supporting the U.S. shipping industry...
...water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond its boundaries like a flood tide, bringing into its fold other nearby cities, which had to annex themselves to the city to get the water...
...Government lawyers, backed by an affidavit from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, quickly appealed to the Supreme Court what they called McGarraghy's "clearly wrong" injunction, bypassing the Appellate Court on grounds that the Girard case's "imperative public importance" demanded a speedy settlement. Their two-fold argument: 1) the Uniform Code of Military Justice permits the Pentagon to surrender jurisdiction to civil authority where it sees fit; 2) in international relations, i.e., the status-of-forces agreement with Japan, the U.S. executive branch has power to waive jurisdiction over overseas G.I.s. At week...
...beginning itself, however, promised to be the fulfillment of a crusade for democracy at Harvard. The turn of the century saw Harvard wrestling with a two-fold problem: High school graduates and scholarship students lived in the economical Yard while the rich moved off to "Gold Coast" quarters on Massachusetts Avenue, and final and "waiting" clubs were forming, with clubhouses erected on Mount Auburn Street. Harvard College, both socially and physically, was splitting into two camps...