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...constitutional conference. Burnham merely ignores him, and with Finance Minister Peter D'Aguiar, head of a small multiracial party, has helped work out a constitution that offers the hope of a prosperous, stable and democratic future. Elections will be held under a system of proportional representation. To broaden the government base even more, the Prime Minister will be required to consult with the opposition on such matters as key appointments in public service and the judiciary. Guyana, as the new nation will call itself, intends to remain a member of the British Commonwealth-and hopefully join the OAS family...
...CITY FINANCES. A five-point program that included Pentagon-style cost-analysis techniques, bold tax revision, and expansion of the city's economy to create 200,000 new jobs and thus broaden the tax base...
...supply in one weekend, now has to ration its stocks to Canadian dealers. The Swinger says President Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, "will find its market among teenagers, young married people and families that want a second camera." To reach them better Polaroid will broaden its distribution system, sell its cameras in drugstores and college book stores for the first time. Film Passes Cameras. The real significance of the Swinger, however is that it will greatly expand sales of Polaroid film. An eight-picture roll of film for the Swinger will retail at $1.99 (compared with...
...supplementary materials sent to teachers enrolled in the program are designed to help them broaden and enliven their classes. One of the most popular of these aids-the collection of covers that have appeared on TIME during the summer-will shortly be going out to teachers enrolling for the 1965-66 school year. Other aids scheduled to follow will include background studies on the United Nations on its 20th anniversary, space, Viet Nam, civil rights and world religions. As events dictate, we shall also be sending extras during the school year, such as maps, charts and special reports...
...intense dedication on nonremunerative civil-liberties cases. In the early '50s, he successfully defended Johns Hopkins Scholar Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury. (Lattimore, testifying before a Senate committee, denied supporting Communist causes.) In 1954, Fortas persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to broaden the definition of legal insanity in the light of psychiatric knowledge, a decision that is still reverberating through the courts. In 1962, the Supreme Court picked him to appeal the celebrated Gideon case; he argued brilliantly and induced the court to rule that any citizen, no matter how humble...