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...Government's purchasing, housekeeping and property-managing agency, the General Services Administration has a multitude of business operations. Last week the GSA got a boss with experience in a multitude of business fields. Sworn in as General Services Administrator was big (6 ft. 3 in., 198 Ibs.), gruff Franklin Floete (pronounced floaty), who has been a banker, real estate dealer, lumber retailer, construction company operator, automobile distributor, tractor and farm implement dealer, rancher (he lives on what he believes to be the only farm within the Des Moines city limits) and, most recently, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Properties...
Politics of Protest. The power of Pierre Poujade has grown monstrous in the short two months since he parlayed a taxpayers' strike into 2,600,000 votes and 53 Deputies sworn to do his bidding. Then, a senior politician dismissed him as "an episode." Last week, getting stronger all the time, Poujade boasted: "New elections-next month, next week, tomorrow-would give me five to six million votes, and perhaps 200 Deputies...
...Supreme Court has repeatedly held that no treaty may be unconstitutional. For example, in Geofroy v. Riggs (1890) the Court said, "It would not be contended that (a treaty) extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids." In addition, the President, by his oath of office, is sworn to enforce and uphold the Constitution. This certainly pertains to treaty-making. A mere statement that treaties should be in accord with the Constitution does not, therefore, warrant a constitutional amendment...
When he was sworn in as a Federal District Judge here in April 1954, he took a civil officer's oath swearing he had never been a Communist...
...editorial goes on to assert blandly that United States and United Nations action would be taken against Arab aggressors in the event of their swarming across Israel's borders--something every Arab dictator has sworn to do ... We should all not the small size of the Israeli state. Within hours, far shorter time than it would take a U.N. or U.S. force to be fighting ... Israel would no longer remain on the map. Without weapons for defense she could not face the blitzkrieg of Soviet war machines...