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Intense Contest. The Senate showdown will come on Jan. 4, the day the 95th Congress convenes. The Democrats will select a successor to the retiring majority leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, and the Republicans a new minority leader to replace retiring Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania...
...Astor deputy once quipped.) But the paper is still firmly plugged into the Old Boy network of Oxbridge dons, senior civil servants and other privileged subjects who have helped run Britain -and the Observer-for decades. Ownership of the Observer will give Anderson a box seat in that select circle, a valuable asset in a business as politically sensitive as oil. Indeed, Anderson has announced plans for an "international advisory council" of leading businessmen, politicians and educators to assist the paper's board of directors. "Great corporate enterprises need to do things that make their presence known," explains Cater...
...year-old Emperor and Empress Nagako, 73, were lauded by a select audience of 7,500 in an hour-long ceremony at Tokyo's flower-bedecked Nihon Budokan (Martial Arts) Hall. In the half-century since the accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled...
Each year the Dean of College sent out letters telling House committees how to select CRR student members, and each year few Houses even considered cooperating...
...None. I've deliberately avoided that. I'm not being coy about it. There are about 75 people whom I will select personally, and among those 75 positions I have not identified any person to sit in a particular position. There are, obviously, people around the country whom I would consider very seriously asking to come into the Government. Governors or mayors or perhaps a few members of Congress or per-haps leaders in different professions...