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...House of Commons; as leader of the largest group (112 of 265 members), Diefenbaker was invited to form the new government. He brought in legislation to implement his major campaign promises-tax cuts, aid to farmers, higher social-security benefits-saw most of it adopted with the reluctant consent of the opposition parties, finally called for a new election that might give his party a firm majority...
...Nationals. And the other Aspen schoolchildren were prepared to have a rousing good time. A couple of weeks ago, acting on the newly discovered principle that a parent can yank his child out of school whenever he feels like it, 15 of them got parental consent, hookyed off to watch some ski races...
...four years Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad has given only charity concerts, insists that she is a ''private person." But her voice is more public than ever-on records. After it became known in 1954 that (with her consent) His Master's Voice sound engineers had called on Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf to dub in two high Cs that Flagstad was unable to hit in Tristan und Isolde, Flagstad could not be lured before a microphone for nearly two years. But since then she has signed up with London Records, made 23 LPs, including a complete Götter...
...eliminated or bypassed many petty details of bureaucracy, cut the average time for processing an antimonopoly case from 65 months to 22 months today. Under present Chairman John Gwynne, only one in five FTC cases goes through the full and costly process; the others are settled by consent agreements...
Government by consent of the people is gaining in Latin America...