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...understandably wary of the presidential appetite for power, Congress probably does not have all that much to worry about in the case of the super-Cabinet. The Government is strewn with the wreckage of earlier attempts at reorganization, and Nixon's may end up in the same heap despite all of the fanfare. In any case, dissenters in the bureaucracy will still be able to frustrate an activist President in their customary way: going on the sly to the press, to sympathetic members of Congress or to aroused constituencies among the public. A super-Cabinet does not necessarily make...
...Damp Heap...
...band stopped and everyone collapsed into a damp heap. "Be-cause... I'm too pooped to pop." Not a chance. Once again people were up. Once again the crowd exploded its stored energy. So fine. So fine. He's so fine... "Spike, you're such a man." "You know it Mary Lou. Here, hold my ring." Good old rock and roll. Everyone in two lines. Stroll. Memories of The Diamonds. Ten couples in a line. Up and down. The band played on and the beer flowed...
...Crimson made a clean sweep, and at the awards banquet embarassed Barnaby asked for a wheelbarrow to cast off the heap of Harvard silverware...
...Gary, Ind., is not one of those garden spots that perennially win community-service awards. Indeed, it is in some aspects the very model of modern urban decay. Founded in 1906 by Industrialist Elbert H. Gary (who judiciously chose not to live there), it sits like an ash heap in the northwest corner of Indiana, a grimy, barren steel town. The sons and daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town's majority, are law-abiding citizens...