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Already the Powell case has put subtle pressure on both chambers of Congress to re-examine the rules that govern their members. In the Senate, the slow-moving investigation of Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's tangled finances is scheduled to resume next week. In the House, proposals to establish an ethics committee are being pushed with new vigor. Said Massachusetts' Freshman Republican Margaret Heckler: "How can the House slap one member's wrists without holding out all members' hands for inspection...
...cities of Cambridge and Boston. Fears were expressed that the universities would become entangled in local politics and that town-gown conflicts would be exacerbated. Others predicted that scholars would bog down while trying to fight their way through the bewildering maze of political and bureaucratic jurisdictions that govern the metropolitan area. By now, however, most of the doubts have been resolved, and the Center plunges into issues as controversial as the effort to eliminate racial imbalance...
...Saudi Arabia-the Bank of Cairo and the Misr Bank-and Nasser retaliated by confiscating all of Feisal's Egyptian property, which is valued at about $47 million. In a setback for Nasser, Tunisia broke diplomatic relations with his puppet republican regime in Yemen, saying that the Sallal government no longer has power to govern the country...
...Washington Lawyer Joseph E. Davies, who in 1935 became Franklin Roosevelt's ambassador to Moscow. Relying on what she had learned from her art dealer, Lord Duveen, Madame Ambassador began acquiring her extensive collection of czarist icons and chalices when they were put on sale by the Soviet govern-ment at 50 per gram of silver content. Mrs. Post and Davies were divorced in 1955, and she subsequently married and divorced Pittsburgh Industrialist Herbert May. The names of her latest escorts (Hotel Consultant Serge Obolensky, former Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth) provoke speculation in gossip columns, but friends...
...political system has undergone a revolution since 1933, and another major departure appears in process now." That departure involves a wholly new system of relationships and approaches to Government at all levels of American society. As Gardner puts it, the new modes of organizing U.S. life have "profound implications for the way we organize our society and govern ourselves in the years ahead." Says he: "We have made the biggest step-facing our problems and the nature of the solutions. We have a sense of what can and should...