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Last December Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff decided to take drastic action to reduce his state's automobile accident rate. On his order (and a warning that no crackdown would mean no reappointment), Connecticut judges began handing speeders 30-day license suspensions on first arrest and 60-day suspensions for second offenses. With mixed prudence and pride, Connecticut motorists trod more lightly on the gas pedal. Last week Ribicoff happily announced the first fruits of his campaign: in the first three months of this year, Connecticut traffic fatalities were nearly 15% lower (down to 63) than...
...first was the late Franz Rosenzweig (TIME, April 5, 1954). The second is Martin Buber (TIME, Jan. 23). The third is Abraham Joshua Heschel. 49, Polish-born, Berlin-educated friend of Theologian Buber and associate professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Twinkle-eyed Dr. Heschel, a small man located beneath a bush of grey hair, labors in a blue haze of cigar smoke, and writes prose that sings and soars in the warm, intuitive tradition of the great 18th century Hasidic leaders from whom he is descended. His just-published book...
Reconstructionist. In Hazard, Ky., Oliver Cole, 40, was arrested after neighbors phoned the cops, complained that he stood in the street pounding on a garbage can while loudly campaigning for another term for Abraham Lincoln...
Later in the week Stevenson traveled east to Hartford, Conn., where a conclave of top New England Democrats gave him a welcome that warmed his heart. At lunch, with Governor Abraham Ribicoff (who in January pledged Connecticut's 20 Democratic votes to Adlai), Stevenson was assured that he had no cause for worry in New England. That evening, expanding in such a congenial atmosphere, he gave 1,500 guests at Connecticut's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a sample of the new-style Stevenson fight talk...
India, which has one of the world's highest fecundity rates, is proving to be a fertile breeding ground for contraceptives. Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Stone has experimented there with strings of beads to aid illiterate women in following the rhythm method of family planning. Boston's Dr. Clarence Gamble has suggested a cheap vaginal jelly made by boiling rice flour and adding salt...