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...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, by Louis Keren. The Washington correspondent of the London Times casts a sympathetic eye on the U.S. political system...
...MBTA will receive $1,330,112 from the Library Corporation and $6,097,854 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Great and General Court (state legislature) appropriated its contribution in 1965 as the Commonwealth's official memorial to the late President Kennedy...
...more building going on in the City of Boston at this moment than in any city in America--that's by dollar volume in relation to per square yard area and in relation to population served. The third aspect of the program was to endeavor to have the Commonwealth assume its fair share of the responsibility for the City...
...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH by Louis Heren. 366 pages. Harper...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...