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...Democratic Socialists, the Socialists and the Republicans. This time, the Communists have decided to take a new campaign tack: instead of asking for votes only for themselves, they are working to elect a Parliament that would produce a ruling coalition in which the leftists would have much more clout...
Moving to back up B.B.C.'s technological clout with more efficient production, Schmidheiny last spring completed a merger with Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Switzerland's second biggest electrical company. And only last month, shortly after winning the huge American Electric and TVA orders, he signed up another U.S. ally. Brown, Boveri and North American Rockwell Corp. announced plans to study ways of mating the U.S. company's nuclear know-how with B.B.C.'s turbine technology to enter the mushrooming American market for atomic-power plants...
...delegates will have to commute from the Loop via a single expressway or the back streets of the ghetto. The city's mammoth lakefront exhibition hall--closer to downtown, isolated from residential ears, and far easier to defend--was gutted by fire a year ago, but Daley's clout and assurance of peace brought the party to Chicago anyway...
...first time they (the Central Americans) have found that by joining together they have a clout, that they can make an impact," Sol M. Linowitz, U.S. representative to the OAS, said. "They are holding fast to regional loyalty...
Kennedy's clout showed itself this year when he led a seemingly doomed crusade against a congressional redistricting bill aimed at negating the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote dictum until the 1972 election. Kennedy first promoted passage of a Senate version separate from the House's, and when all five of his fellow Senators on the joint conference committee opted for the House bill, Kennedy defied tradition by warring on the conference committee report. The Senate backed him, 55 to 22, a notable personal triumph. Yet he made no enemies in the process. "He isn't sneaky," says...