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Under the so-called Plan E, city manager government of Cambridge, the new Council, which took office Monday, is powerless to act until it has elected one of its members mayor and another vice-mayor. A majority is required for election...
...Benson plan requires that the states pay a large share of their conservation expenses; this means that poor but deeply eroded states like Arkansas will falter in land-saving measures. Threats of floods encompassing entire river-valleys will find separate state conservation agencies powerless to employ the control measures which formerly the Soil Conservation Service would use as a matter of course...
When Burger took office, a test seizure of the S.S. Meacham had already been made by the Truman Administration, and the owner's appeal was laboriously dragging its way through the courts. The former Administration felt powerless to seize any more until the test case was determined. But as soon as Burger, 45, a St. Paul lawyer and an influential Ike-before-Chicago organizer, took over, he found an ingenious way of cutting the legal red tape...
...Syngman Rhee did only what he had warned he would do. The U.N. Command, and the rest of the world, had long regarded Rhee as an obstreperous but powerless old man who might threaten but would be brought to heel. Now an awful realization dawned: maybe the old man meant what he said. For Rhee, the release of the prisoners was entirely consistent. In more than half a century of fighting for a free and united Korea, he had made it clear by his acts that he was prepared for anything, from torture to an open break with his allies...
...this critical juncture in Democratic history, Lyndon Johnson fills a precise bill. He is no political boss, and this is a virtue because a boss would be useless without a machine. He is no disciplinarian, and this helps because a disciplinarian would be powerless in a party which is looking for an excuse to fly to pieces. Nor is he a statesman; this, too, is a virtue because the party, at the moment, stands to profit most by keeping quiet. Lyndon Johnson is a political operator. He senses political situations, understands individual motivations and moves swiftly to organize party positions...