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...tide of approving mail from across the nation, Mitchell was in no mood to back down. When Newburgh's own welfare director admitted that he, too, thought the code illegal, Mitchell and the city council forced his resignation, appointed a more pliable acting commissioner, ordered a departmental shakeup. Mitchell denounced investigating state-welfare officials as "Gestapo agents," and fortnight ago he put his code into effect. Last week he carried his fight to Washington, and waded deep into the choppy waters of Republican politics...
Howard J. Phillips '62, Council president, and Roger M. Leed '61, a former member, accused the Dean of partisanship toward the Council shakeup plan proposed by William E. Bailey '62, chairman of the Dunster House Committee. Leed called Monro's attitude "highly unethical for a member of the Administration," saying that College officials should maintain a disinterested stand on the issue of Council changes...
...first time in his college career, captain Perry Boyden will not be stroking a crew. The highly acclaimed oarsman was moved into the six seat in a shakeup Wednesday that saw senior Dana Whitten stroking the varsity...
...shakeup, a famous Old Bolshevik faded away. Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session. Premier Khrushchev praised and decorated Stalin's old companion-in-arms, then kissed him on both cheeks. But the aged President had been on the wrong side of the 1957 leadership fight, and Khrushchev had not forgotten...
Economic Commissar. With the shakeup, the form of the Castro government, months in the shaping, came clear. Fidel Castro, who helicopters about the country dispensing largesse from the blue National Bank checkbook he always carries in his breast pocket, is political chief. His pony-tailed brother Raul is military boss, commanding the 35,000-man rebel army that is the regime's principal arm of force and terror, notably for rounding up all suspected oppositionists on a charge of "counterrevolution" (last week's bag: 250 prisoners...