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...swept into office with 54% of the vote, the greatest plurality in Chilean history. He won partly because of his own magnetism, partly because of his ambitious ideas to cure Chile's many economic and social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where he finally withdrew his entire program until after election day. Said Frei: "I will appeal...
...Donald Duck become a masochist? Does the disappearance of Mickey Mouse's goodness presage a decline of the West? How much power is conveyed in "bang" and "pow"? Such weighty questions were debated last week at Bordighera, Italy, at the first international exhibition of comic strips...
...Holmes's love disinterest. Actress Swenson is so cool that icicles wouldn't melt in her mouth, though words do-it is difficult to know whether she is reading her lines or learning them. Martin Gabel is sepulchrally menacing as Moriarty, but he has a walk-on, duck-off part...
Velie said that Adams House will enter a bid only if it is not a binding contract. He emphasized that he felt a lame duck House Committee should not make any major commitments...
...lengthy opinion, Superior Court Judge William Gallagher first seemed to duck the issue by ruling that the suit should have been filed in municipal court. But then he said that the plaintiff was wrong anyhow because the 14th Amendment forbids only state-enforced discrimination in public accommodations. While the state itself may not discriminate against Negroes, he said, the 14th Amendment entitles a U.S. citizen "to discriminate for any reason whatever in his private conduct subject to properly enacted statutory limitations...