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Still, L.B.J. is not a man to yield power freely. He has, for instance, flatly rejected the idea of sharing taxes with the states. In so doing, he kept jealous guard over the prime source of a President's domestic strength the federal taxing power...
...commands. Greece's new rulers are country boys, who come from lower middle class or peasant families. "Papadopoulos was the richest of us all," says an officer loyal to the junta, "because his father was a schoolteacher." Papadopoulos & Co. are suspicious of intrigues in the big city, jealous of the rich and resentful of the favors that the Palace passed out to highly placed officers. In the past, any incursion on royal prerogatives met with kingly counterattacks; in recent years two Premiers-Constantine Karamanlis and George Papandreou-lost their jobs for suggesting far less drastic limitations. This time Constantine...
...Jealous Rim Shots. Best of them all, says Simon, was Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Others may have been more creative, hard-driving or distinctive, but, all around, Dorsey's band "could do more things better than any other." At one time or another, it featured such talents as Drummer Buddy Rich and Trumpeter Bunny Berigan, Singers Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford, Arrangers Paul Weston and Sy Oliver-and, always, the warm, silken trombone of T.D. himself, from whom Sinatra learned most of what he knows about breathing and phrasing...
...block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about his "edifice complex," Ahmanson is widely admired among S. & L. men. "We may be jealous, but we can't be critical," says President Edward L. Johnson of rival Financial Federation...
...often obfuscates the Communist threat by claiming that Communist helicopters are landing in Thailand to supply the terrorists (there is no evidence of such) or that the insurgency is an invasion by thousands of Thai-born Chinese youths (the terrorists are mostly Thais). The Royal Thai Army has become jealous of the relatively successful pooling of military, police and civilian resources into a Communist Suppression Operations Command in the Northeast, and has, against American advice, persuaded the government to give it full control of the counterinsurgency program. Local military commanders now plan to invoke martial law, and some Thais...