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...last week he opened the White House gates to an economic philosophy of another hue when he chose his chairman of the influential three-man Council of Economic Advisers. The chairman: Walter Wolfgang Heller, 45, a smiling, polysyllabic professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, who ranks among the nation's most articulate believers in Government-planned growth of the U.S. economy...
Last week a three-man federal court went further, issued contempt citations against Lieutenant Governor C. C. ("Taddy") Aycock and two other top state officials for refusing to sign salary checks owed to teachers at New Orleans' two integrated schools. (The city's other teachers have had no trouble getting their...
...irreverently, Montreal Poet F. R. Scott epitomized a nagging Canadian obsession: how to preserve a distinctive Canadian cultural identity alongside the powerful influence of U.S. television, books and magazines. Last week, in deadly earnest, a three-man Royal Commission on Publications-Canada's equivalent of a U.S. congressional investigation-was sounding the same theme. But along with its concern for Canadian culture, the commission had an unconcealed economic spur: a demand by the Canadian magazine industry for government protection from U.S. competition...
After hearing arguments from both sides, a special three-man panel of federal judges agreed to rule on the constitutionality of the Louisiana legislature's surge of segregation laws. In addition, the school board asked for a temporary suspension of integration while the court ruled on the state's effort to interpose its authority between Judge Wright and the board. But until the motions are ruled on, the judges decreed, integration will continue...
...income tax returns, 3) a pair of Justice Department prosecutions for wiretapping and bribery, and 4) the Landrum-Griffin labor law, which was written largely to unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean. Last week Jimmy Hoffa was just one shot away from sinking the monitors...