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...principle of the item veto has already been accepted as constitutionally sound, for it is being used successfully in Puerto Rico and in thirty-six states. The support of such widely diverging political figures as Senator Byrd, William Douglas, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Herbert Hoover testifies to the need for a streamlined system...
Best Marks. Through the week TV's own writers, actors and producers earned their best marks in the documentary and semi-documentry line. In Background (NBC, Sundays, 5:30 E.S.T), Producer Ted Mills turned a sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory...
...week's end Nixon, showing the first signs of weariness, climbed back aboard his plane and headed northeast. This week, on the last lap, he was to visit the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti...
...chief justice is to have administrative responsibility in addition to his judicial duties, he must have full-time professional help. Only 13 states (plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia) now have such offices of judicial administration. An example of their work is seen in the weekly summary of reports from every New Jersey judge, listing hours spent on the bench, cases and motions heard, and decisions reserved. These reports on individual performance are distributed to all judges. The effect on indolent judges when their laziness is thus exposed has, Arthur Vanderbilt says tersely, been "truly remarkable...
From Mexico the Nixons flew to Guatemala. Beyond lay El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti...