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...dull incentives for innovations." Despite the indictment, Congress did not see fit to give the new department the powers it needs. With 95,000 employees and a $6.2 billion-a-year-budget, DOT (as it seems destined to be called) starts life as the fourth-largest department in the Government, bringing together 32 scattered federal agencies, from the Bureau of Public Roads and the Federal Aviation Agency to the Alaska Railroad and the Great Lakes Pilotage Administration. Beset by myriad pressures, Congress stripped the twelfth Cabinet-level department of many logical functions, including control of the heavily subsidized maritime industry...
...question of Reagan's lack of experience is, of course, a vital one. If he is elected, he will at least go to Sacramento without obligations to the bosses and backers who hagride most professional politicians. He will have to show that a citizen-Governor can govern. That is not an impossible challenge. As Nixon said last week of Reagan and Michigan's G.O.P. Governor George Romney: "They are new. And they project the mystique of the future rather than the past...
...have to come to terms with. To Verwoerd, the mixture of baasskap and benevolence came naturally. And evil as it was, it seemed to be a formula that could at least prevent an explosion of racial violence. The question was whether his successor could or would be able to govern in the same fashion...
...shoved as a saddened Illia walked slowly through the streets behind his wife's casket. At the church, and later at the cemetery, the unruly throng tried to turn the sad occasion into an anti-Ongania demonstration by shouting, "Death to dictatorship!" and "The military trash cannot govern us!" Dazed and tearful, Illia ignored the shouts. After the ceremony, he retreated once more to his brother's home. His plans: to sell some of the gifts he received while President and with the money, plus contributions from friends, rent an apartment in Buenos Aires. "He is a sober...
...Woman!" By the time she returned to stand trial a year later, she had begun to attract public support. Besides, the first issue of Woman Rebel had only promised the illegal stories; it had not delivered them. The Govern ment withdrew its indictment...