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...Guerriere in 1812. Protested Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall: "We are proud of Old Ironsides, and she belongs in Boston." Said Boston Mayor John Collins: "There are too many risks in moving the vessel to New York." Cried the Boston Record-American: "The Constitution is too sacred a relic of our heritage to make it a road show." Joining the protests were the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the New England Council of the V.F.W., officials of Boston's historic Freedom Trail Committee, and the state's Navy Mothers...
House Bill 1385 provides for the dissolution of the obstructive and superfluous Executive Council, a relic of colonial history which is empowered to approve or reject several hundred gubernatorial appointments. The Governor would be granted still greater freedom by House Bill 1386 which authorizes him to re-organize the Commonwealth's unwieldy executive department; the Governor must now administer 247 independent bureaus with no clear pattern of organization. Former Gov. John Volpe reportedly could not even remember who directed each of the agencies, let alone what their functions were...
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, is a theatrical event of fascinating and ironic magnitude. Geraldine Page acts with dazzling prismatic splendor, but the play, a 4½-hour marathon, is a dated Lost Generation relic, infused at odd moments with O'Neill's personal anguish...
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, is a theatrical event of fascinating and ironic magnitude. Geraldine Page acts with dazzling prismatic splendor, but the play, a 4½-hour marathon, is a dated Lost Generation relic, infused at odd moments with O'Neill's personal anguish...
...China last week, Ceylon's visiting Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, sniffed incense, was wined and dined by Premier Chou Enlai, and was even taken to see a relic of Buddha's tooth. Reason for the indulgent treatment was the set of proposals that Mrs. Bandaranaike brought to Peking as spokesman for the six nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-who met in Colombo last month and took it upon themselves to arbitrate the bloody Himalayan border dispute between China and India. The neutrals' solution delighted the Chinese, for it set up a demilitarized...