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...scant hour after winging into Washington from South Dakota, Lawyer Joseph H. Botfum, 58-was sworn in on the Senate floor, replacing the late Republican Senator Francis Case. The diligent Dakotan helped found his state's first Young Republicans' chapter in 1934 and got Governor Archie Gubbrud's endorsement after rising to the lieutenant-governorship in 1960. No sooner was he in his seat than Bottum cast his first vote against a Democratic amendment to the NASA appropriations bill. Chuckled South Dakota's Senior Senator Karl Mundt: "It was a good start for a Republican...
When the play opens at high pitch with a big confrontation scene between Bolingbroke and Mowbray, Basehart admirably conveys how ill-suited Richard is to be king: he slouches in his chair, popping grapes down his gullet and chatting with retainers, while paying scant attention to the dispute he is supposed to adjudicate...
...they have foresightedly been undertaking for the past decade. The Edison Group, which is Italy's biggest utility and one of Nenni's favorite punching bags, has already spread into dozens of industries from steel to synthetic fibers. But even the fat compensation promised the companies is scant solace to many Italian businessmen, who fear that this is only the beginning of further government assaults on private enterprise. Cried Alberto Ferioli, deputy secretary of the business-minded Liberal Party: "This policy threatens Italy's economic miracle." And even Ernesto Manuelli, president of the state-owned Finsider steel...
...these two common markets talk grandly of forming a single black African market in the future. But to create a working common market takes more than a customs union: coordination of fiscal, agricultural and transport policy is also necessary-and so far, the newly independent nations of Africa show scant readiness to surrender any sovereignty...
...textile producers hope to hold onto their European markets, they may now have to liberalize their position on tariffs. Last week's tit-for-tat action by the Common Market is a clear warning against further U.S. lapses into protectionism, and a bold suggestion that the U.S. has scant choice but to accommodate its trade laws to the new economic realities of a resurgent Europe...