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...When reminded of Winston Churchill's comment on France: "How can you govern a country with 300 cheeses?" De Gaulle retorted: "There are at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The General Told Me | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

STRATFORD, Conn.--Picture this: President Nixon, in the face of rampant corruption and immorality, finds that he can no longer govern. In accordance with the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, he declares himself "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," and announces his intention of going abroad. Spiro Agnew thus becomes Acting President. Long known as a preacher of puritanism. Agnew starts a major campaign against pornography and prostitution, but eventually is himself drawn into criminal conduct. Nixon meanwhile, instead of skipping the country, takes a leaf from G. Gordon Liddy, dons a disguise, and travels around...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Philip Kerr Excels in 'Measure for Measure' | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...powerful policymaker. One either concedes. "After all, he's the President," or one feels as if he has thrown mud on the flag. Perhaps it is not too late to consider a switch to parliamentary democracy, which is based on the principle that he who reigns should not govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1973 | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...votes an Administration minimum-wage proposal and passed instead a more generous Democratic bill that Nixon's aides had handily blocked in 1972 on grounds that it would be inflationary. More such defeats will inevitably come unless the President can demonstrate that he has regained the energy to govern purposefully. The announcement of a new anti-inflation program this week would be the best way for Nixon to start: it would demonstrate that he recognizes which problem has been most seriously aggravated by the Government's paralysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: A Creeping Paralysis | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...born in 1957 when the city took advantage of the Federal Housing Act of 1949 to create a semi-independent agency to govern urban renewal. The Housing Act's original intent was the lofty goal of a "decent, safe, and sanitary" housing for all Americans. The 1949 Council endorsed the Act, foreseeing the opportunity "for Cambridge to replace large parts of its substandard housing with modern planned neighborhoods...

Author: By Robert Mcdonald, | Title: Hard Times for Planners in East Cambridge | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

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