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...case, Congress had impeded the implementation of a Court decision. In the D.C. home rule case, Congress must take the initiative and has consistently refused to do so. The President has proposed a replacement of the city's three-man Board of Commissioners with a single commissioner and a nine-man council. The proposal would not give Washington citizens the right to even their own city government, but it would at least centralize authority and attract a competent commissioner...
...most important political decision of his career early this year. Since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, Conyers had been considered the heir apparent to Adam Clayton Powell as the nation's leading Negro Democratic politician. Now he was asked to join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that Congress was generally corrupt...
Under the President's scheme, he would appoint a single commissioner and a nine-man council. Johnson has also promised to introduce a constitutional amendment to give the District a voting member in the House and "such additional representatives in the House and Senate as Congress from time to time may provide...
...successfully defended its team title as Apostol claimed second in sabre, Mike Gaylor first in foil, and Joe Messin first in epee. The same trio swept the individual and team titles at the Easterns. Columbia placed second, although the Lions edged N.Y.U. 14-13 in a dual meet with nine-man teams earlier this year...
Debate over the budget paralleled the Council's customary political division. The nine-man body has been seriously split since last February when, by a five to four vote, it replaced the incumbent city manager of 14 years...