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...simple, practical fact that a President cannot build his policies into legislation without a Congress, and particularly a House of Representatives, controlled by his party. There will always be renegades, but the great majority of Representatives will trod dutifully along behind the House majority leader and the party whip. And since the whip and majority leader meet each week with the President to decide policy, they are primarily interested in carrying out the President's program in the House...
...ring and his theatrics are gone, but the traditions and rituals of Germany's "noblest" sport have survived. Last week, at the height of the Blattzeit (roe deer mating season), hundreds of hunters trod through West Germany's deer country. Few could afford Göring's "hoch" style of shooting, but those who could manage it wore the hunter's minimum dress-green knickers, brown or green suede jacket, cravat, stylish hat, rubber-soled stalking shoes...
...villa was apparently built by one Ancius Petronius Probus, Rome's proconsul for Sicily in 406 and an ancestor of Pope Gregory the Great. Down the corridors of time, conquering Byzantines, Saracens and Normans trod its glittering floors. About a third of them have now been uncovered...
...citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped out of sight while for six hours the products of peace trod by: paratroopers, light and heavy tanks (Soviet-made), howitzers, armored cars, and 400,000 civilians, pulling floats and flaunting menacing banners. Mao arrived at the scene in a shiny cultural contribution of the New China: its first homemade jeep...
...Trujillo was testing his ability to pass on his power to his family. Perhaps he merely wanted a rest; at 59, he is tired, and maybe ill. Whatever the reason, his "retirement" was a milestone on as brutal and bloody a road as any dictator in the Americas has trod in this generation...