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...support in 1964 and, to the surprise of many, even put the pledge in his State of the Union speech. To show that he meant it, he pushed so hard when the repeal bill reached the House floor in July that it flashed through, 221 to 203, after a scant five hours of debate. After that, no one expected it to run into any serious trouble in the Senate...
Rare Show. The no-vote impasse had been bridged a month ago when the U.S. agreed to let nations in arrears on peace-keeping-operation dues (notably Russia, and France) vote anyway-despite Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which stipulates that debtor members shall not. Then, scant hours before the Assembly opened, the U.N. Security Council in a rare and impressive show of Big Power unanimity arranged the cease-fire in Kashmir. And in just a week Pope Paul VI, spiritual leader of a fifth of the world's people, was to arrive from Rome to wish...
Victory, in fact, belonged to no one in last week's ceasefire. Kashmir remained divided. India still claimed 690 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory (see map), but had failed by a scant three miles to capture the strategic Sialkot plateau. Pakistan held 250 sq. mi. of Indian Kashmir and Rajasthan, but had lost -temporarily at least - half its armor. And Red China had lost that most val uable of Asian commodities: face...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
...decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene in 1959 to become symbols of Germany's postwar conscience. Both, too, have been remarkably productive, Grass with nine published works, Antes with an astonishing 14 one-man shows in a scant three years...