Word: reforms
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...Incumbent John Lodge (brother of Cabot) in the 1954 gubernatorial race. As Governor, Ribicoff has faced Republican-controlled legislatures during most of his regime. Nonetheless, he has seen a surprising number of his major requests passed into law: one of the nation's stiffest traffic-safety programs, court reform, abolition of a 300-year-old system of county government, $350 million in bonds for new highways. Ribicoff is unlikely to be a Cabinet innovator, but should prove popular in carrying out orders of a chief whose welfare philosophy, he says, is "on all fours" with...
...noisier days, including one with 20 bombs earlier in the week, but none worse. In place of the usual black-powder noisemakers planted in the suburbs, these bombs were exploded downtown and were packed with dynamite. The provinces were not far behind. Saboteurs on horseback burned out an Agrarian Reform Institute garage in Pinar del Rio, derailed the Havana-Santiago express train at Santa Clara, fired a Havana-Santiago...
Stone emphasized that the reform program, sparked by Che Guevera, "a really wonderful human being," was "no more left wing than the reforms of the American Federalists." Both groups, said Stone, recognized that only the monopoly latifunda-lsts benefit from maintaining a sizeable group of "shiftless poor--that way the rich can keep them from shifting to industrial work...
...civilized society will be largely judged by the creative activities of its citizens in art, architecture, literature, music and the sciences . . . Our society must stimulate and support richer cultural fulfillment . . . Thus far, television has failed to use its facilities adequately for educational and cultural purposes, and reform in its performance is urgent...
Freshman Jubilee Committee; PBH Reform School Committee; Vice - President and Member of the Vestry, Canterbury; Student Council Elections Committee; Eliot House Committee (Sophomore-Junior-Senior); Club Hispanico - Americano; House Swimming...