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...Change. Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, has submitted a list of 14 homes for consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...
...practice, of course, Lyndon Johnson can only work through consent and consensus, and even then his policies are resisted by many senior Democrats on the Hill-as Senator J. William Fulbright demonstrated last week by castigating the Administration's decision to land troops in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...picket the Reb's house, shouting "Whore-lover!" and demanding to know why their daughters were not good enough for him. Summoned before the sect's religious court, Blau refused to abandon Ruth because his vow of betrothal to her could not be broken without her consent-something she would never give. Blau also raised a canny theological argument. His sexual organs, he explained, had been injured slightly by shrapnel during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Yet the law (Deuteronomy 23:2) says that no one who is "crushed or maimed in his privy parts" can marry...
...reaction of the South Vietnamese people to possible Communist rule, Rosenthal said that there has been only one peasant uprising in North Vietnam and large numbers of such uprisings in the South. The Vietnamese, he concluded, "consent to the rule of the Communists" because "the Communists offer both brutality and betterment, while the United States offers only brutality...
...might merge into a one-party state. Local Congress leaders who have held power since 1947 own too much land and urban property to permit the reforms that are needed if India is to reach economic equity. The zamindars of West Bengal, for example, have become (through Congress Party consent) the equivalent of the English gentry...