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...biggest problems facing most Governors is the outmoded machinery of state government itself, and in Arkansas, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Iowa, the chief executives called for major changes in basic operating laws. Colorado's Republican John Love, embarking on his second term, decried his state's "crazy-quilt development of overlapping, duplicating, and sometimes competing groups of governmental jurisdictions," warned that it could not sanguinely face the challenges of the future with the "organizational patterns of the 19th century...
...persuaded California savings-and-loan-company officials to give him $100,000 as contributions for congressional candidates in the 1962 campaign, then pocketed $80,000 for himself. Called by the prosecution, Kenneth Childs, president of the Home Savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles-the nation's biggest S & L company, with assets totaling $2 billion-testified that in 1962 he met with Baker, who complained that Childs's industry was not "politically active" enough and suggested that $100,000 would be an "impressive" contribution from its California members...
...biggest of the new Thai bases, all leased individually from the Bangkok government, is U-Tapao, part of the giant sea and air complex at Sattahip, 80 miles southeast of Bangkok. U.S. Air Force KC-135 jet tankers already fly from its 11,500-ft. runways, and Washington hopes that Thailand will soon approve the transfer to U-Tapao of the B-52 heavy bombers that now must make a 5,000-mile run from Guam to bomb in Viet Nam. Fearful of direct North Vietnamese retaliation, Thai officials are wary about granting such approval. "If the B-52 question...
...want to be the biggest," explains Freimann, who became president in 1950. "Only the best...
Still A.M.C.'s biggest stockholder, Evans will keep his seat on the board and remain on the executive committee. "The company has cleansed itself out, so to speak," said Evans at a press conference next day, but "I will have my little cotton-pickin' hands in this pie for quite some time...