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...fear that the U.S. will invade to protect the status quo inhibits the rise of governments which are committed to reforms. Yet such reforms are essential to economic and social development, the central aim of the Alliance for Progress. While the U.S. continues to pour aid and investment into the Alliance, its policy of intervention forestalls the measures necessary for Progress...
Generally they prefer the status quo. Departmental chairmanships are not, to put it discretely, the University's most popular jobs. They involve all sorts of administrative trivia. Those who take them do so stoically, imbued more with a sense of duty than with any real zeal for reform. As a result, the departments, which control the bulk of every students's education, are headed by men with little time or energy to think about students--or education...
...fact, for all his prestige, Old Harry Byrd's influence was greatly exaggerated. For despite his uncompromising fiscal orthodoxy, Byrd ran his committee according to his own courtly code. He refused to block the liberal bills he abhorred, and eschewed the quid pro quo tactics by which more ambitious politicians achieve their ends. Yet Byrd, as one Administration aide puts it, "was like a yellow blinker. You had to slow down when...
...granted; of 48 seats in the prairie provinces, Pearson's Liberals won exactly one. By the same token, last winter's series of influence-peddling scandals in Pearson's government seemed to have little carryover effect at the polls. Collectively, the voters opted for the status quo; having had a minority government that, for all its problems, gave them what they wanted, they saw no need for change-either to a majority for Pearson and his Liberals or a shift to the Conservatives and John Diefenbaker...
...incumbent, Gartland had been expected slip back into office amidst the general clamor for the status quo. The Wednesday newspapers blamed the loss on his affiliation with a reform group, the Citizens for Boston Schools. The citizens backed four candidates besides Gartland, all of whom lost after managing to get on the final ballot. The introduction of this reform slate crystallized the racial problem as a political issue...