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...unquestionably a major step forward, and it brought a few whiffs of other new freedoms. For the first time, Spain's censored press was permitted to follow the bill as it went through the parliamentary machinery. There was even discussion of its provisions on television. And, unlike the rubber-stamp parliaments of old, this year's session gave the bill a thorough going-over. For six weeks the bill was before a study committee, was then passed on to the Justice Committee, which reworded it. One old-guard Falangist, charging that the bill was "unconstitutional," tried...
...seat on the convention floor is a reward for the party faithful, the precinct delegates, envelope stuffers, and phone callers, and there are always many to be rewarded. Presumably such people predominated at the rubber-stamp conventions of 1956 and 1960 and constituted rather more than a majority of the 1964 convention...
...First, the Commissioner may well become a rubber-stamp for the county organizations, the governor, the parole board (one of whose members was instrumental in lobbying for the appointment of McGrath's successor). McGrath is a fighter, and he fought pressure from all sides, such as industries' complaining about competition from prison training programs, to get what he needed...
Though Nasser has hinted that some time he might turn the presidency over to someone else and devote full time to running his Arab Socialist Union party, the hour has probably not arrived. The betting is that Egypt's 13-year leader will be renominated unanimously by his rubber-stamp Assembly, then re-elected by his usual 99% -plus majority...
...congressional strategist: "He's one of the best who ever came down the pike. He moves when you don't know that he's moving, and his greatest talent is his tenacity and his endurance. Most Administration measures will not be handled in a rubber-stamp fashion. They'll be altered in the committees and altered on the floor. But they can be passed without the cliffhanging operations we've had in the last few Congresses...