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...Said P.G. Mavalankar, an independent: "This is the most obnoxious piece of legislation ever introduced in the history of India." Undeterred, the government then moved for approval of a constitutional amendment barring court review of the emergency decree. It passed the lower house by 342 votes to 1. The lone dissenter was Shamim A. Shamim, an independent Kashmiri, who declared: "I will keep up the flame...
...Lone Reporter. Schorr's manner seems abrasive. The glasses are thick, the brow is wrinkled, the voice is from a gravel pit. Hustler Schorr concedes: "I guess I'm aggressive, but I don't consider myself abrasive. I'm direct." When he is not on the prowl, he can be amiable and modest. But he has seldom been off the prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington...
...tycoons played the risks with such consummate cool as Norway's Hilmar Reksten, 77. The tanker business seems always to swing from boom times of frantic demand and soaring charter rates to busts during which expensive tankers lie idle and unwanted. Reksten, a ramrod-straight six-footer and lone-wolf operator, started out as a shipping clerk; in 1929 he bought a freighter cheap, parlayed it into a modest fleet (thanks in part to two rich wives), then seized on slumps to buy up tonnage cut-rate. By 1973 he had amassed a flotilla worth, by some estimates...
...would keep the two cosmonauts who have been circling the earth in the Salyut 4 space lab since the end of May in space through ASTP. That was clearly a bit of orbital oneupmansinp: the Russians would have two separate teams in space during the joint mission against the lone American crew...
...they were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit three years ago. When its citizens learned that Pham, 40, and Tran, 37, who are both physicians, were willing to settle there, they went out of their way to make them feel at home...