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What Batlle Berres and his 153 won was six seats on the nine-man, Swiss-type National Council, with Batlle Berres slated to be the first council president. His opponents charged that he is against the "multi-person executive," which replaced the office of President in 1952, and will try to get himself voted sole President again. Campaigning with his favorite lapel decoration, a sprig of pine, Batlle Berres promised simply to encourage industrialization and higher farm production. His record shows that he approves of Uruguay's mild socialism, disapproves of his powerful Argentine neighbor Juan Peron, in general...
...management found out about the plan, it tried to merge with Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co., but Lamb blocked the deal. Then Lamb went to court and forced the company to call a special shareholders' meeting to consider adding ten Lamb backers to the company's nine-man board of directors...
...many of whose U.S. staff members have been investigated as to their loyalty in recent years, last week announced a loyalty program of its own. Any employee who finds it hard to place allegiance to the U.N. above loyalty to his own government should quit, said a nine-man board. Unqualified loyalty to the U.N., the board explained, "may be made easier by the understanding that, from the long-range point of view, legitimate national interests can only be served by the promotion of world peace and prosperity and the successful progress of the international organizations toward these objectives...
...Washington President Eisenhower signed a bill setting up a nine-man commission to study the feasibility of a transatlantic television system. The commission, still to be appointed, will report at the end of this year. Primary goal: a method for the U.S. to broadcast TV direct to Europe. Said the House committee report on the bill: "Television can become an important medium in the overseas-information program of the U.S. Its impact upon other peoples could be greater than that of the Voice of America...
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the answer yes. Its bill of fare: a bedtime-story series for children,
language lessons, courses in geology, art appreciation, civics.