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...amended City Charter makes it clear that the City manager and his staff is to handle municipal affairs and authorize civil servants to do specific jobs. The City councillors, by law, are forbidden to tamper with this process at the risk of a $500 fine or a six month prison sentence. Violators also are forbidden to serve the City in any future capacity, elective or otherwise...
...followers, Charles de Gaulle was nothing less than "twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
Each of the administrators qualified their non-recognition with claims that they lacked the authority to tamper with the Kraus plan or to recognize the Union. Wilcox and Ford deferred to Bok, while Bok deferred to the Faculty when questioned by Union members Wednesday night at an open discussion on "Teaching in the University." The two deans and Bok overruled Union demands for more scholarship funds with claims that all income from Harvard's endowment has been spent on University operating costs...
Harvard will not tamper with the ceiling of Nixon's budget but will urge that cutbacks in certain areas be reduced at the expense of others...
What Nixon seems not inclined to tamper with is the staff of his palace guard, whose pettiness and unswerving zealotry, many would argue, do not serve the President well. More than ever, Nixon lives in isolation, avoiding the press as much as possible as he moves from Camp David to Key Biscayne to San Clemente, reveling in the privacy that those retreats provide him. He treats Congress as an entity to be ignored or an obstacle to be surmounted, often to the distress of its members even in his own party. Although the Administration during the campaign observed a moratorium...