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...sometimes more than twice that in the spring, when Washington's tourism is at a peak). Inevitably, the floors have been scarred by more than 6,000,000 heels, and the hangings and wall coverings have been soiled by those who could not resist the urge to touch. The repairs-handled by White House maintenance men-are necessary every two years, and were arranged this summer to coincide with the President's vacation in Colorado...
...confer upon its committees the power to veto executive action or to prevent executive action from becoming effective. Since the organization of our Government, the President has felt bound to insist that executive functions be maintained unimpaired by legislative encroachment, just as the legislative branch has felt bound to resist interference with its power by the executive...
Said the Guild declaration: "The A.N.G. and its locals need not resist the dismissal of any employee who has admitted [party membership] in an open hearing by a competent governmental agency [or] who has finally been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been a member of the Communist Party." The Guild's action, which applies to anyone who has been a member of the party within six months of being fired, takes the place of a proposed change in the Guild's constitution barring Communists from membership altogether (TIME, Aug. 16). "If anyone wants...
...plant became the biggest cotton compress in the world. By way of a hobby, he bought a little farm near São Paulo and started planting it, growing olives, plums, lemons, bananas, kumquats, corn and orchids. Impressed by the possibilities of tropical agriculture, he was unable to resist taking on CAFE'S lands when the chance came along in 1953. He resigned from Anderson, Clayton to work full-time on the new project...
...become a second-string player on either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any issue, nor am I going to intervene in any issues." But it would have taken a man less vain than Nehru to resist the Soviet welcome, the grandest given to any foreigner within memory...