Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...President-elect in history, he will move on Washington like an arrow. Already Clark Clifford, an old White House hand from the days of Truman, is at work on a what-to-do program for the transition months between election and inauguration. Plans are under way for a complete overhaul of the executive branch: Clifford has a list of 204 top jobs that would be filled by Dec. i, another 406 to be filled by Jan. 1. Clifford is working closely with the Brookings Institution on a table of organization patterned on Dwight Eisenhower's efficient White House arrangements...
Delaware: Democrats, though feuding among themselves, are registering new city voters, trying to overhaul an outstate margin that gives Nixon a lead...
M.I.T.'s new plan is a systems approach, which is spreading throughout its engineering departments in a $9,275,000 overhaul financed by the Ford Foundation. On the premise that specialized skills can be learned on the job after graduation, M.I.T.'s civil engineering students will take courses in modern physics, thermodynamics, electrical engineering, statistical theory, operations research and computer development. They will also study social and political factors that influence engineering applications. Says M.I.T.'s Dr. John Wilbur: "All the structures, ground facilities and processes that adapt and control environment are the concern of the civil...
...this has done much to restore faith in the school system. St. Louisans used to vote down school bond issues in helpless rage. But the board is now actively moving to overhaul the administrative system, and in next spring's election, Dan Schlafly hopes to get a reform majority for the first time. The way things are going, he will...
...jail terms, but in Kentucky can incur no heavier legal penalty than a $50 fine. Nevada does not even consider adultery a crime. Because of such disparities and contradictions. Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ploscowe, expert on U.S. criminal codes and a former New York City magistrate, argues for a major overhaul of U.S. sex laws in the current Duke University law review. Says he: "American men and women are continually upon the move. They should not be exposed to the risk of being branded felons in one state for sexual behavior that may be legally innocuous in another." Examples of state...