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...greatest happiness is being able to live under the sun of the Stalin constitution, each article of which is sacred for us." So declared Izvestiya three decades ago. Last week there loomed on the horizon of Soviet citizens a new constitution-Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's proudest creation and the product of 15 years of labor and behind-the-scenes controversy...
...Communist Party and becoming embroiled in the battles of the American left. As a party member, Nelson agitated for unions, civil rights, unemployment benefits and other "radical" causes, and yet the months he spent in Spain fighting for an unsuccessful cause are the times of which he is proudest...
...Bureau of Reclamation so bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...Ford presence shrank, until there was nothing left but their luggage and their bed. At breakfast with 75 aides and Cabinet members on the final morning, Ford circulated around the State Dining Room, thanking each person individually. When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller declared that "this is the proudest moment of our lives," a wave of applause washed over the room. Said Ford in response: "You all contributed to an Administration I think was good-and which history will treat kindly...
...government will have to run the economy. Earlier this year the Group of Ten (industrial nations) had set up a credit line of $5.3 billion for Britain to be used as a weapon against the rapid deterioration of what was at one time the world's mightiest and proudest currency. About $1.23 billion of that total already borrowed by Britain must be paid back by December. Part of the debt will have to be paid with the new loan applied for last week...