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...legally holds most of the municipal power. Cambridge's charter makes it clear that only the city manager and his staff directly handle municipal affairs and can order civil servants to do specific jobs. City councilors who try to tamper with this process risk a $500 fine and a six-month prison sentence...
After Congress in July rejected the White House proposal for phased decontrol the President vowed to veto a congressional bill that provided for a six-month extension of present price controls, due to expire on Aug. 31. That action would have plunged the nation into abrupt decontrol, with definite inflationary dangers. Faced with that prospect, late last week both the Administration and its Democratic opponents abruptly pulled back from the brink...
...finally finished in divorce 14 months ago. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 43, and Richard Burton, 49, appear strong enough for a second try. "This is not a trial reconciliation, it is permanent," proclaimed Pressagent John Springer of his clients, who met in Switzerland last week following Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn romance. For the time being the couple are acting coy about another wedding...
Vacationing on the green slopes of Vail, Colo., President Ford ended last week what suspense remained in the seven-month-long battle between the White House and Congress over oil price controls. He will veto, said the President, the six-month extension of the controls that Congress has passed and will officially send to him by month's end. If his veto is upheld, as previous ones have been, controls will end on Aug. 31, and the 60% of U.S.-produced oil that has been held to $5.25 per bbl. will be free to rise. The Administration hopes...
Bacteria Count. If convicted, Good Humor faces fines of $1.8 million. Donald Kennedy, now on leave as production director, faces a six-month jail sentence; James Jerram, former manager of quality control, could be jailed for four years. Jerram is on leave from Good Humor's parent, Thomas J. Lipton Inc., which is itself a unit of the Dutch-based multinational Unilever. Good Humor General Counsel David St. Clair says the company is "not guilty...