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...gingerly denounced the Newburgh plan before going to his Venezuelan finca for a vacation. At week's end, with the state preparing to fight Mitchell's code in the courts,* even Newburghers were beginning to wonder whether the plan was necessary after all. In the first muster of male reliefers last week, only one man (of the three who showed up) was eligible to work his 40-hour stint for the city. But whether or not his code is needed, and whether or not he makes it stick, Joe Mitchell and Newburgh have already made a lasting impression...
...buoyed by events that it made no effort to pressure foot-dragging committees in the House and Senate into rushing the bill along. Time was running in the bill's favor, and the opposition appeared to be crumbling. Representative Tom Pelly of Washington was able to muster only 83 of the House's 437 members on a petition protesting the President's plan to borrow $7.3 billion directly from the Treasury-a tactic designed to bypass the authority of the penny-pinching House Appropriations Committee. Even respected Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that such "backdoor spending...
...normal, and not the unusual--that change is the central reality of our times," Bohlen warned. "We must draw from within us those things which the study of history has shown to be true and permanent, and stick to those with all the consciousness and dedication which we can muster...
...Souls elects distinguished Fellows from outside, such as T. E. Lawrence, who wrote most of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom under All Souls' auspices. But most Fellows are "straight gate" entrants, culled from Oxford's most brilliant new graduates. Each year only one or two pass muster, and in some years, none do. Each candidate submits two papers on his specialty, two more on such matters as politics and literature, a translation paper, and another on a one-word topic such as faith or loyalty...