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...covering those without Social Security) and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (he and Bobby Kennedy got through an amendment that emancipated New York's Puerto Rican population by waiving literacy requirements in English for Spanish-speaking Americans who have attended U.S.-flag schools). Javits makes no obeisance to the titular authors of the laws he has helped to shape and enact. "I really pulled that one off," he says, or "I did an excellent thing setting that...
...proud Beni, a natural opponent of Chief Osadebay. Witnesses told Justice Alexander that Omo-Osagie led Owegbe rites in his own home-grandly titled Osana House-in Benin City, even mixed Owegbe potions in a human skull. Second in Beni eyes only to the Oba of Benin-the titular ruler of the Benis-Omo-Osagie denounces the investigation as a plot to reduce the Benis to political impotence: seven of the province's 20 Cabinet ministers have been named by witnesses as members of the cult; their ouster from the government would obliterate the Benis as a political power...
...politicians from all political parties to the book-lined living room of his Athens palace. There, pouring the drinks himself, questioning politely and listening attentively, he was at his charming, 25-year-old best. So impressive was the King that even loan-nis Passalides, the 80-year-old titular head of the E.D.A. (proCommunist) party, returned, glowing, to party headquarters. Monarchically miffed, a Red colleague snapped: "That's the last time you go to the palace!" Papandreou, a longtime republican, called it all the work of a young and rash ruler who was attempting to step...
...supremely important mechanical effect. It would consolidate his hold on party machinery in the Nation's Capital. The Arizonan's lieutenants were ruthless in seizing control of that machinery; they may be just as tough in holding onto it. They might well be able to re-nominate the titular head of the G.O.P. in 1968 come what...
...capital to attend an officers' meeting, quietly rallied some fellow officers, including the commander of troops surrounding Saigon, and on the night of Jan. 30 pulled off his own coup, a silent one that caught his rivals in their pajamas. While persuading Big Minh to stay on as titular chief of state, to maintain at least a facade of continuity, Khanh took power as president of the Military Revolutionary Council and Premier...