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...legal challenge to DeGuglielmo appears headed for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. However, another indirect legal challenge to DeGuglielmo's appointment has been overcome. During the removal proceedings of former manager Curry, three applications for criminal complaint against three pro-DeGuglielmo councillors were brought in East Cambridge Court. Two of these have now been dropped voluntarily, and the third has been dropped...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Cambridge City Manager Asks Annual Budget of $26.8 Million | 2/23/1966 | See Source »

...expenses, etc.-not available under medicare. By their direct access to some 18 million persons eligible for medicare, the intermediaries will have the inside track on such policies. Moreover, as John Budds-who will head Travelers' medi care effort-explains, the intermediaries will be placed "in direct or indirect contact" with millions of oldsters' relatives under 65. This should give them an unsurpassed lead to the sale of insurance of all sorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: Partnership of Promise | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...report, the commission termed the present system "archaic, undemocratic, complex, ambiguous, indirect, and dangerous," noting that a person can become president with fewer popular votes than his major opponent. This is because the "winner-take-all" system gives each state's entire electoral vote to the leading candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freund Says Direct National Vote Would Stimulate Political Activity | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

...expansionist policies-businessmen feel squeezed between the irresistible laws of supply and demand and the immovable determination of Lyndon Johnson to keep a lid on prices. What the Administration seems to be demanding is restraint on a staggering scale, under loose rules and without force of law. Such indirect controls are difficult to administer and impossible to police equally; it remains to be seen how firmly the Administration will handle the next big wage-hike bid. But the message to business is clear: cooperate-or else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Governing by Guideline | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Last week they got their answer - but in a manner so indirect and ambiguous that it took the nation a week to fathom what the President's real feelings and intentions were. Convinced that one of John Kennedy's greatest mistakes as President was his bitter, demagogic con frontation with the steel industry, John son managed to show his strong dis approval of price rises without uttering a single word in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prices: The Great Aluminum Rattle | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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