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Vellucci said that since inauguration day last Monday, the Council majority of five independents had been trying to select a Mayor, but couldn't agree among themselves. Vellucci said that he himself had submitted his own Mayoralty candidacy, but had never received another vote except from his friend, Thomas M. McNamara. (Actually, Vellucci also received a vote from Andrew T. Trodden on the fourth ballot...
...Democrat Brown did not echo Republican Rockefeller's refusal of a vice-presidential nomination. If the Democratic Convention should select virtually anybody except Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy, then Catholic Californian Brown, with his 81 convention blue chips, might become attractive as the second man on the ticket. And if any of the presidential candidates had ideas of taking those 81 votes away from him in California's June primary, Favorite Son Pat Brown issued a fair warning: "Then I might to some extent change my position . . . But that's the only possible chance there...
...Tory Front Bench otherwise filled entirely by university men and Establishment types. He gets down to any problem personally, whether donning a diver's suit to examine the Thames's muddy bottom before his firm drives piles for a London power plant, or cycling through Burgundy to select casks of wine for later bottling in his West End cellar...
Behind yellow and green holiday lights festooned across a 23-story concrete building in downtown Havana, the select inner ring of Fidel Castro's chaotic dictatorship this week celebrates its first anniversary in power. The building is not the national palace or the long-deserted Congress, but the tightly guarded headquarters of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). Yugoslav Theoretician Milovan Djilas once observed that the first duty of any Communist revolutionary is to destroy the political force that brought him to power and replace it with an enormous, patronage-rich bureaucracy. Castro has quietly smashed...
When the "secretarial rooms" are full, the M.P. and his staff descend to one of the stifling little cubicles located in an area called "Queen Mary." Five years ago a parliamentary select committee complained of the "bad ventilation" of these cubicles, and last week Minister of Works Lord John Hope solemnly noted that one recommendation this committee made was to have the doors of four of the cubicles removed. Though reform went through, most Members still prefer to do their dictating in an airier place-on a bench in the House of Commons lobby...