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Symington, 38, who since last May served as the President's adviser on juvenile delinquency, started running the moment he was sworn in last week as the State Department's Chief of Protocol, succeeding Lloyd Hand, who resigned to enter California politics. He had been in office less than an hour when he presented Sudan's new ambassador, Amin Ahmed Hussein, to the President. Apart from preparing for Mrs. Gandhi's visit, Symington was also busily readying himself to handle the myriad problems of the 113 foreign mission chiefs in Washington-his new "constituency," as Johnson...
...City's first Republican mayor in 20 years, the honeymoon ended even before he took office. With retiring Mayor Robert Wagner off on an Acapulco holiday, Lindsay, 44, was saddled with the responsibility for a costly, crippling transit strike that became all but inevitable hours before he was sworn...
...custom? The training of bureaucrats who were also humanists, artists and scholars, to carry on the established order, was the major tradition, dominant over most of the centuries, whereas the present regime seems to be in a minority rebel tradition of dynastic founders, more like a band of sworn brothers rising from the countryside as leaders of peasant rebellion, animated by an extreme fanaticism...
...prove that court officials as well as newspapers were prejudiced, Bailey told how Judge Blythin had confided to Hearst Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in a pretrial interview that Sheppard was "guilty as hell.'' Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe contended that Kilgallen's affidavit had never been sworn. Because Kilgallen as well as Judge Blythin have since died, Saxbe maintained that the statement could not be rebutted and was inadmissible. Bailey retorted that an assistant attorney general of Ohio had accompanied him when he talked with Kilgallen, and they agreed that her statement did not have to be sworn...
...member center-left coalition Cabinet put together by Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro was sworn in by President Giuseppe Saragat in Rome's Quirinale Palace last week. There was practically no difference between this Cabinet and the last, which fell 33 days before. Nonetheless, Italy applauded, and the Milan stock market surged to a new three-year high. Italians rightly understood that Premier Moro had triumphed over a positively Borgian plot...