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...controls to guarantee the efficient and successful conduct of all future voting under Council jurisdiction. No longer will the date of elections be in doubt until the last minute; no longer will even the possibility of inaccurate counting be conceivable. A committee of Council and House Committee representatives will safeguard the ballot boxes and, as the report puts it, "remove as far as possible from the election procedure any element of arbitrary choice or personal preference...
...every innovation by the bandit-beaters, the operators develop a safeguard. And for every safeguard, there is a new way to hit the jackpot. "Hell," says one disgusted slot-machine mechanic, "you could surround the thing with sheet metal, and they will find a way to beat it." Yet for all the troubles with the professional jackpotters, there are always enough honest, ordinary suckers around to make the one-armed bandit history's healthiest highwayman...
...relationship protected by law in twelve states. Last week, "greatly disturbed" because New York State does not grant its working newsmen this legal safeguard, New York State Assemblyman Edwyn E. Mason proposed a bill that would make reporters immune from prosecution for concealing their sources...
...filibuster, though it has in recent times assumed the cast of evil, is a respectable safeguard against the vagaries of democracy. Instead of allowing its elimination by a small group of Senators, it would seem far wiser to establish the two-thirds-of-those-present rule as the necessary number to limit debate. Such a compromise will permit the passage of needed civil rights measures without sabotaging a truly useful protection of minority rights...
...This was the first clear-cut, realistic choice farmers have ever had on the question of controls versus freedom of decision," crowed Benson. "Farmers are now free to plant as much or as little corn as they wish, with the safeguard of a reasonable support level. They have acted in their own, best long-term interests...