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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dick every night." Finch bitterly opposed cuts in aid to mental hospitals, and initiated legislation to set up a state Department of Human Resources Development, pulling together such social-service functions as job training and the poverty program. As an ex officio member of the University of California's board of regents, he frequently angered the Governor by moderating Reagan's often simplistic, sometimes vindictive attitude toward the strife-ridden university...
...murdering and conspiring to murder two gambling competitors, a Toledo bootlegger and the bootlegger's girl friend. Before commutation, Licavoli was not eligible for parole; Ohio law forbids it in the case of a life sentence for first-degree murder. Now, however, the pa role board can vote to free him at any time. Licavoli has relatives who are Cosa Nostra powers in Michigan, Ohio and Arizona. If released, he would live in a Grosse Pointe, Mich., house until now occupied by an in-law who is still in the rackets...
Tougher safety regulations governing U.S. railroads are a major goal of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has noted that derailments in creased by 71% between 1961 and 1968 (TIME, March 7). Last week the case for regulation was strengthened still fur ther when two more freight trains with potentially lethal cargoes jumped the tracks on the same...
...week's end Cornell was in a state of euphoric exhaustion. Despite their misgivings, most professors seemed satisfied that Cornell had averted bloodshed. Many students envisioned a new era of racial good feeling. Robert W. Purcell, chairman of the board of trustees, said the "silent center" had spoken, and he insisted that "Cornell has come through without danger and strengthened." Yet disturbing questions remain: If radical student power dominates a university, what happens to professors who disagree with it? More broadly, if a university is threatened with disorder, how far can it compromise before it loses all integrity...
...Calkins also began to rise in Cleveland educational circles. In 1961, he told the city's Adult Education Council that it needed to put some enthusiasm into its commitment to educational excellence. In late 1962, he gave a much-publicized speech at the Ohio School Board convention in Columbus...