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...royal coach, crowds jammed the sidewalks to cheer her. They called again and again for her to show herself on the balcony of the royal palace. Flag-waving schoolboys swung into a popular song that ends with the words "because she is so young and pretty," and the venerable Sixtus Harbor Battery boomed out a 21-gun salute...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, Maine's Democratic governor, and Jane Gray Muskie, 29: a second daughter, third child; in Augusta, Me. Name: Melinda. Weight...
Broderick was one of many: in the nation's first 1956 general election* the reign in Maine fell plainly on the Democrats. Democratic Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James...
Maine's Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), genial, boyish (42) Democrat with a demonstrated flair for the political upset in a traditionally Republican stronghold. Last week, 21 months after he achieved the improbable by vaulting into the Statehouse over a faction-ridden G.O.P., he sauntered unopposed through the state primary and seemed as popular as ever...
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE (700 points out of a possible 800): The church's management record has been uneven. In the reign of Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) "we see the beginning of real delegation of authority and responsibility in church affairs." Two "major" weaknesses in today's structure: "Too little provision for staff research work, the result of which would be available to bishops," and "too much line and staff responsibility . . . still vested in the Pope himself, thus cutting down the opportunity for his good health, study and spiritual leadership...