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...referendum was the result of a 1952 Legislature resolution, allowing communities to abandon the system if they so voted. The PR voting, however, had no bearing on the continuation of the city manager plan...
What sort of policy should this be? The GOP majority has two suggestions. One is to abandon Asia, quarantine it from US troops, and supply only what cash and armaments a comfortably low tax rate can make available. This means leaving Korea, lessening assistance to the French in Indo-China and the British in Malaya, and adopting the Asians against Asians doctrine promulgated recently by General Eisenhower. It means a refusal to share in the risks of collective security, even though demanding anti-communism of the countries America would abandon...
...made Lewis guess wrong was WSB Chairman Archibald Cox, a Harvard Law School professor. Explaining his. board's action, Cox said: "The real issue before us, in this case, is whether we shall now abandon the fight against inflation . . . Our decision is against such a step . . ." The coal miners, he added, could not justly claim larger wage increases than those granted to steel, rubber, auto and other workers...
...informal abandon give yourself to a vivid shirt knotted at the high waist. Cover a bare midriff with tiny checkers of color in cumberbun style. Slacks are passe, but pedal pushers of black or red, and longer too, will find you bizzaire but in taste. Wear sandals of plain leather with no ornaments...
...have been many times quite inexplicable. During last spring's foreign policy debate, Senator Robert Kerr described Cain's activities thus: "He has made the greatest single contribution to Republican collective confusion. He introduced two resolutions the same day. One was to declare war on China, the other to abandon the Korean War entirely. Thus while other Republicans were going in directions different from each other, Senator Cain was going in opposite directions at the same time." Or when asked by reporters what he would do about the situation in Korea, Cain replied: "I can only say first...