Word: government
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Peter Diamandopoulos, Dean of Faculty, yesterday proposed the establishment of a committee system with black participation to govern the creation of the new department and the appointment of its head...
Marvin ("Buddy") Mandel, 48, speaker of the house of delegates, state Democratic chairman and the man who most helped Agnew to govern successfully, has the inside track on replacing him. In fact, Agnew may even quietly urge Maryland's 33 G.O.P. legislators (v. 152 Democrats) to support Mandel, who helped him to enact income tax reform and an open-housing bill as well as to repeal Maryland's antimiscegenation law. A quiet veteran of 17 years in the legislature, Mandel appoints all house committees, signs all bills, and presides over its sessions with a composure that only rarely...
...wake of Richard Nixon's election, speculation inevitably focused on the impact that his narrow victory would have on his ability to govern. Lacking a popular majority, or even a respectable edge over Hubert Humphrey, would he be hamstrung by an opposition Congress and hounded by his always numerous critics? The answer is likely to be: not for a while. After a year of crises and threats of more to come, the nation and the world seem eager for a respite. Moreover, the U.S. has long had a tradition of forbearance toward a new President: a willingness...
...party. But it acted coolly, picking and choosing among candidates for high office and low. And it laid to rest some phantoms that had threatened to haunt the Republic and the two-party system for years. Yet the nation denied Richard Nixon the really massive "mandate to govern" he had pleaded for. In fact, the vote was in many ways a reflection of the divisions that have been tormenting the country all year...
...training, George Orwell should have been a Blimp. Born Eric Blair, into a military-official family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese police. The experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm of two imperial centuries of interracial injustice and violence. Unlike most people, he could take it but he could not dish it out. Back home on leave...