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Little, Brown will remain headquartered on Boston's Beacon Street, in the old Cabot family residence overlooking the Boston Common. Nor are any changes in management planned; Arthur H. Thornhill Jr. will remain as president. Little, Brown will also continue to issue some 35 books a year jointly with the Atlantic Monthly Press, which publishes the Atlantic Monthly magazine. "We are confident," said Thornhill, "that this affiliation with Time Inc. will enable us to expand our publishing operations and meet the increased professional and general demands for materials of all kinds...
Massachusetts politicians often talk about something which they call "the system"--the unwritten, rigid rules which govern life up on Beacon Hill. White's ultimatum was in utter defiance of "the system." Indeed, "the system" decreed that the price White would probably have to pay for his interference with the legislative process would be the scuttling of legislation that he might propose as Mayor of Boston. The risk was a great one but White probably realized or at least sensed the sharpness of Davoren's desire to replace him and also sensed Quinn's quietly seething ambition to become Speaker...
...special message to the legislature is not enough. Statements by Dorchester and Milton politicians last week indicated that the proposed bill will be in for a tough fight on Beacon Hill. The Governor must show the state now that he is willing to keep applying pressure even if the political consequences appear damaging...
Instant Comeback. Then, flanked by Wife Lenore and three of their children, the Governor earnestly catalogued the nation's ills: crime, welfare, slums, inflation. "We are becoming a house divided," he said. "The richest nation in the world is a fiscal mess. Once a beacon of hope for people everywhere, America is now widely regarded as belligerent and domineering. We are mixed in an Asian land war which sacrifices our young men and drains our resources, with no end in sight. False optimism and lack of candor on the part of our leaders have confused our citizens and sapped...
...Moreover, the world's revolutionaries no longer look to Russia or its leaders for inspiration or recall its once-stirring exhortation: "Workers of the World, Unite!" As Communism and advancing technology have learned to coexist, Russia has lost its role as a revolutionary beacon...