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...Louise Day Hicks, the controversial School Committee member who is Boston's staunchest advocate of the neighborhood school system, led her nine male opponents in yesterday's preliminary mayoralty election...
...Egyptian cannon fired again last week, this time in welcome to one of the Arabs' staunchest friends, Josip Broz Tito. When the Yugoslav President's plane arrived in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser warmly embraced his 75-year-old visitor. Then, after reviewing the Egyptian honor guard, the two leaders drove off to Nasser's presidential palace for three days of talk about war and peace...
Earlier this month, Rhodesia's 3,000 tobacco farmers, who have been the staunchest supporters of the white supremacist regime, heard their government's dictated solution. Next year's harvest must be cut by 34%, which means that some 600 of the country's farmers will either have to grow other commodities or get out of the business...
...success has been its departmental audits. "This strikes me as being the real payoff. There is nothing like it anywhere," Dean Monro, one of the HPC's staunchest allies, has said. When this program was originally set up during the HPC's first year, chairman Michael E. Abram '66 and audit committee chairman Evan Davis '66 planned to investigate seven departments a year, so that each department would be reviewed every four years...
Both Hands Full. During the House debate, no one tried to pardon Powell's peccadilloes. Even his staunchest defender-Michigan Democrat John Conyers, a Negro-argued that he should be censured. In light of the evidence and the fact that the mail of some Congressmen was running 100 to 1 against seating Powell, the chief dispute concerned the severity of his penalty...