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...meet the practical difficulties raised by governmental reform, Plan E supporters in Cambridge banded together to form the Cambridge Civic Association. Functioning not only as an election-time support to good-government candidates but as a fulltime watchdog and policy development group, it assumed and has maintained a strong position as perhaps the principal source of progressive ideas in the city...
Impounded. In Kalamazoo, Mich., ticketed for leaving her keys in the ignition when she parked her car, Mrs. Cleo O. Brocato demanded a trial because she had also left her watchdog in the front seat...
...then recoiled before brisk U.N. action. A few months from now when things quiet down, they will start to probe again." A possible way to forestall future Red probes and one that may be recommended to the Security Council by the fact finders: establishment of a permanent U.N. watchdog team in Laos...
Edward A. Segal '60, a member of the exploratory group, described the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy--as it will be named--as "a continuous watchdog on programs which the Administration is putting into effect...
...appropriations bill for fiscal 1960: no funds could be used for contracts with any company that had hired general officers who had been on active duty within the last five years. The amendment was defeated by only a narrow (147 to 125) margin. Shortly after, the House's watchdog Armed Services Investigation Subcommittee fired off 840 questionnaires to 100 leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves...