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...boat commander named Friederich Wilhelm ("Fritz") Hofmokel, Brownsville today is a flourishing seaport that last year handled 4,685,000 tons of cargo. More than half that tonnage consisted of low-grade Mexican oil imported under a unique arrangement that Brownsville's predominantly Mexican-American inhabitants fondly refer to as "El Loophole...
...equally important, the states must begin to more effectively and more efficiently use the revenues they now have. Unfortunately. Pennsylvania stands today as a prime example of outmoded and inefficient state government. One item alone stands like a millstone around our neck. I refer to the mammoth spoils system-the worst in the nation. Pennsylvania must clean its own house before she can stand as a bulwark against the monster bureaucracy that daily swells larger in Washington...
...child," replied the Queen-Regent, "it is you who belong to all these people." It was a hard lesson for a strongwilled, privileged little girl of ten to learn, but Wilhelmina learned it well; long after her abdication in 1948, the people to whom she belonged continued to refer to her affectionately as "the Old Queen." Last week, at 82, the Old Queen died in her sleep at Het Loo, the palace where she had spent her first years and her last...
...company had lost a staggering $143 million in 1961. Lewis, a onetime Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1953-55), has tightened operations and tugged GD back into the black. On TFX he got some help from that charming, arm-twisting Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Pentagon insiders now refer...
Brody said that an ad hoc committee of about ten people has been formed by the Council. It is asking for reports of housing discrimination and plans either to try and solve the specific problems informally itself or to refer them to the Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination...