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Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area...
Proportional representation was heralded in the forties as an effective means of ensuring minority representation with majority control. Any group of voters that numbers more than one-tenth of the population can be sure of electing at least one member of a nine-man council, but a majority group of voters can be sure of electing a majority of the council...
With a victory today, Harvard (9-0; 4-0 in the Ivy League) would win the national and Ivy League nine-man titles, and would go into this weekend's national six-man team tournament at Annapolis in a dominating position...
Nonetheless, when the nine-man board met last week, it approved the concessions. Although fundamentalists were unable to force through a resolution requiring the teaching of biblical creation, their influence was strong enough to require that all statements on Darwin be sedulously qualified. Further, the board reserved the right to review editorial changes, and named an ad hoc commission to work with publishers on mandatory textual changes. Regardless of what the Nobel laureates might think, Associate Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Clarence Hall said that "California has adopted the best set of science materials available...
...Supreme Court. After Congress quite properly rejected two of his appointees and forced him to raise his sights, he successfully elevated men who, although better, were of uneven quality. They share his constitutional philosophy, voting as a bloc in 53 out of 70 of the court's recent nine-man decisions. Nixon quite likely will be able to make more appointments in his next term: William O. Douglas is 74, Thurgood Marshall is in shaky health at 64, William Brennan, 66, has talked of retirement. A great need in the emerging Nixon court is for sharp intellects who can write...