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Trodden said that the three councillors were illegally using Dunphy as a "hatchet man" in violation of the Commonwealth statute forbidding any councillor to "direct or request the removal or appointment" of a city official (such as the City Solicitor) for whom the manager is responsible. He notified the council that he would be a candidate for the position of city manager...
Another major Administration measure, the $2.06 billion antipoverty bill, also faces a House hatchet job. Such Republican critics as Ohio's William Ayres and New York's Charles Goodell want to lop some $600 million to $800 million off the authorization, which will probably come to a vote this week. Angrily, Sargent Shriver threatened to quit as head of the Office of Economic Opportunity if Congress will not give him the funds to do his job. "It would be a delusion to the poor," he said. "I don't think it would be advisable to continue...
Traditionally, when asked to raise taxes, Congressmen heft their axes. This year, under heavy Administration pressure to approve a 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, the mood of Congress is that nothing will be done until the President wields a hatchet himself. In a humiliating rebuff to its Democratic leadership and Lyndon Johnson, the House of Representatives last week bluntly told the Administration that it should either make immediate and specific plans to cut federal spending or else jettison all hope of its urgently needed tax boost...
...Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...