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Even so, land owns men's hearts and roils their blood. Cattlemen and farmers, especially, feared that the state was going to grab power from local government by imposing statewide zoning restrictions. One sign in a rural county administrator's office typifies the most prevalent complaint: THE HELL WITH HOW THEY DO IT IN DENVER. THIS IS SUMMIT! Lobbyists swarmed to Denver to kill the program...
...Thelman Borges, a Communist official in Montevideo: "Even losing, we will be winning. They [the traditional parties] have had it." If Borges and his comrades have their way, the parties allied with the Communists in the Front will ultimately have had it too. "We"-meaning the Communists -"intend to grab the handle," he said. Such candor, however laudable, is unlikely to ease the voters' fears...
...they clear the defensive boards quickly in spite of their ailments to set up the break and can grab their share of the rebounds under the offensive boards, the Crimson should win its Ivy League opener. If not, Harvard will lose the momentum it needs to get through its holiday schedule...
Apparently, however, the issue did not even come up at the sessions. What happened? Some Western experts speculate that Brezhnev sensed that there was so much opposition within the 15-man Politburo that he backed away from making a grab for power. According to some accounts, Brezhnev could count on only five votes. At least seven Politburo members are implacably opposed to granting greater governmental authority to Brezhnev to go along with his party leadership; to do so would be to scrap the collective leadership system that was instituted after Khrushchev's ouster as a safeguard against...
...possibility of investigation. "I think State Attorney General (Robert H.) Quinn wants to be Governor, and might have started hassling us about condom sales just to grab headlines," he said...