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Urban Renewal has gotten no farther. The city had promised the Federal Government to hire an Urban Renewal Coordinator, appoint an Urban Renewal Authority, and set up an agency to enforce the Housing code, all by October 1955. It has thus far done nothing except put a token item in the budget for a Coodinator, and delay action. The city manager, like Diogenes, is looking for a man. The trouble is that he wants a good man to take a bad job, and like Diogenes, the problem is insoluble...
...rivals in the army and navy ended in June, 1951, when Pibul's army joined forces with the police of his ex-rival, General Phao Sriyanandh, to put down a naval revolt. A bloodless coup d'etat the following November was used as an excuse for Pibul to appoint 51 per cent of Thailand's single House...
...Joseph said unto Pharaoh . . . look out a man discreet and wise . . . and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine...
Keane's first official action was to appoint the nine other officers for next year's eight issues...
...Africa, the French are eager to sign Ben Youssef and his Nationalist advisers to a moderate settlement in Morocco. It may take some time and some cosseting, but they have hopes. The Moroccans want a declaration of independence right away, with recognition of their right to raise an army, appoint ambassadors, run their economy. Though willing to go along, the French balk at tossing over their 1912 protectorate treaty without something else to replace it first. They want settlers' rights spelled out, and "interdependence" affirmed through some kind of North African Federation...