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...when the vote was tallied: "I am very happy and moved that a majority would accept appointment to an Emergency Cabinet post." Now he could get on with his promised introduction of what he calls "guided democracy," instead of the Western-style parliamentary democracy which had. admittedly, failed to govern the country effectively...
...weeks hard-driving Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's portly, pink-faced Minister of Economics, had been looking forward to the day when he would fly off to New York to lecture at Columbia University. Almost alone among the men who govern Western Europe Erhard openly doubted the economic wisdom of the proposed European Common Market ("There is no economic sense in creating an island of protection in Europe"). The New York visit, he figured, would give him a fine chance to disabuse Americans of what he considered their excessive enthusiasm for the project...
...minefield through which authority, great and small, and at every level of policy and administration, must step warily, conscious always that a false step may blow it up. The estate of journalism is a dangerous one. It exists as a force in society to remind all those who govern that systems are made...
...symptomatic of Ireland's present difficulties that last week's elections were almost without issue. De Valera campaigned almost exclusively on the grounds that the coalition government of John A. Costello was too weak to govern effectively. The real question seemed to be whether any government can cure Ireland's ills...
Says WGBH's mild-mannered General Manager Parker Wheatley: "We are doing what commercial TV does not do. We don't insult people's intelligence and we don't scream at them. We try to govern ourselves by our three Rs: respect for the viewer, respect for the performer, and respect for the material itself...