Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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...
Only Up. Redmond came to New Orleans in 1953, the choice of a school board that searched the U.S. for two years. He found an administrative system so muddled that even a business man ager was lacking. Despite mounting enrollments (from 65,000 then to 94,000 now), only three new schools had been completed since 1938. "There was no place to go but up," he says...
Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first day of integration three weeks ago, when truancy was rife, is that "my Franklin kids stuck with...
Describing the unification move as "vital," Leach nevertheless criticized the proposed elimination of the service secretaries for two reasons. In the first place, he pointed out, it would be wise to maintain the present system as long as the separate branches remain intact...
...afternoon at 2:15 (if you get in line about two hours early you may be able to get 60 rush seats), and to- stance, leads one to believe that the Soviet rulers could be brought to accept an agreement to suspend nuclear weapons tests and to accept a system of inspection and control for that purpose...