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...Constitution provided a line of succession only for the nation's top job. If a Vice President died or resigned in office-or if, like Lyndon Johnson, he achieved the presidency on the death of the incumbent-the nation's No. 2 office simply remained vacant for the rest of that four-year term. Now, if Spiro Agnew's legal troubles force his departure. Richard Nixon will be required to find a replacement...
Yuse said last week that between 25 and 30 apartments are vacant in the project--about 20 of them in the tower...
...Fanfare. China has now taken an important step toward filling those vacant ranks and putting its house in order. Last week Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, announced that the long-anticipated Tenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party-the first such gathering since 1969-had been held in Peking from Aug. 24 to 28. The Congress had been led by Mao himself, whose failing health was belied by the amazingly healthy and even youthful-looking photographs released by the Chinese. Although China watchers for the past few weeks had suspected that the Congress was imminent, neither fanfare nor publicity marked...
...military. This nearly paralyzed the bureaucracies, even at the highest levels. Of the 21-man Politburo, only eleven members are known to be active, and its five-man standing committee has only two functioning members, Mao and Premier Chou Enlai. This week's congress must fill those vacant ranks. It is also expected that for the first time Lin will be branded a traitor and right-wing opportunist (the party's worst sin). The congress will then have to adopt a new party constitution, one which no longer names Lin as Mao's successor. The congress must...
Zucchini Preserves. The fastest-spreading countermeasure to inflation seems to be gardening. In cities, suburbs and the countryside, people are seeking out vacant plots and turning lawns into cabbage patches. There has been nothing like it since the World War II victory-garden movement. The Jack Hollons of Dallas are among the most prescient and ambitious of the amateur farmers. Anticipating a wheat shortage last fall, they planted a tenth of an acre - their front yard - last fall. They even tried to mill the wheat themselves but had problems. So they took their 100-lb. crop to a commercial miller...