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...dispenses with the checks and balances of the U.S. presidency, which many Gaullists profess to admire. "The President," said he, "must be a chief, not an umpire." All foreign policy, defense and budgetary decisions would in effect still be "reserved" for the President. Parliament would be a virtual rubber stamp body, subject at any time to dissolution by the all-powerful chief executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency. If De Gaulle were to die tomorrow, the office would...
...Vatican observers, the rules indicated that bishops would not be coming to Rome merely to rubber-stamp predetermined decisions. Among the decrees expected from the council: a dogmatic statement on the bishops' position in the church, permission for more widespread use of vernacular in the liturgy, a definition of the church's stand on religious toleration for non-Catholics...
...baseball cards buried among the flakes or offered on the label. This week. Cereal Giant General Mills moves to serve a better after-breakfast bonus. On 45 million boxes of nine "Big G" cereals. General Mills will offer juvenile crunchers a serious, 48-page "Nature's Wonderland Stamp Album." For one boxtop and 30?, a kid can be the first in his neighborhood to study 45 species of wildlife with the aid of fact-crammed texts and sets of six-color stamps to be pasted into the album...
...Arthur Lyman and his group of Hawaiian musicians are staples of the pop-record market. One album alone, titled Taboo, has sold close to 2,000,000 copies, and Lyman fans buy each new effort (Yellow Bird, Hawaiian Sunset, Taboo Vol. 2) with the enthusiasm of rare-stamp collectors. Back home in Hawaii, Lyman's mistily exotic mood music has been copied with varying success by a dozen groups. It draws tourists by the gross to the Shell Bar in the Hawaiian Village Hotel, where Lyman holds forth when he is not on tour (and where television...
...more rarefied atmosphere of theatrical expression, the theatres of the so-called "Boulevard" (as opposed to the official theatres on the one hand, and the avant-garde houses on the other) continued to provide the public with a steady diet of light and unpretentious works of conventional stamp, untouched by Symbolism, Decadence, or Wagnerian innovation. In such productions the gamut of quality was understandably a wide one. Many of them, perhaps most, were concocted by second- or third-rate hacks, destined to make less than a ripple on theatrical tides with endless variations on the inevitable flagrant delit, or with...