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...former Vice-President said President Johnson's extralegal pact with Vice-President Humphrey during Johnson's illness is "a good stop-gap, similar to my arrangement with President Eisenhower." However, he said it is "vitally important" for the states to ratify the 25th Amendment, which provides a permanent mechanism for Presidential succession...
...know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would hope to trade on Indian misery with offers of Marxist panaceas. Shastri's emphasis on agriculture is only a stop-gap measure, certainly not the ultimate answer to India's woes. Once it has learned to feed itself, it can then move slowly, sanely toward industrial self-sufficiency. It may take a bolder man than Shastri to carry such a program through. But somewhere among India's millions, among...
...decision in office was as bold as it was desperate. In an urgent attempt to close Britain's critical trade deficit, he abruptly decreed an extraordinary 15% tax on imports, doubling Britain's tariffs overnight (see WORLD BUSINESS). Though Whitehall insisted that the tax was only a stop-gap measure, Britain's trading partners throughout the world protested that it was a backward-looking move that might jeopardize years of patient progress toward lower tariffs. Wilson's rebuttal was contained in his next major policy pronouncement, a detailed White Paper emphasizing that the solution to Britain...
...each new state enjoys one vote in the U.N. General Assembly-as do all the major powers save the Soviet Union, which wheedled three votes for itself at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. U.N. officials see no way of stopping this proliferation, and in a stop-gap move to accommodate it, the General Assembly Hall has just been redone to seat 126 national delegations, 14 more than present membership. After that, presumably, there will be standing room only...
Robert H. Gardiner, Treasurer of Radcliffe College, said that this problem is still "far in the future, and will only be temporary in nature. But I suppose when the time comes the College can rent some more houses or make some other stop-gap arrangement to make room for the girls...