Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the odds, Sánchez predicted: "I will win if the people are allowed to decide." To make that possible, Sánchez is attempting to expand the primary election system, now restricted to lower offices, to include the governorship. Otherwise, the August convention will be controlled by the party organization. The outcome is uncertain; never before has Puerto Rico gone through a political brawl, mainland style...
...prisons should exploit the ironic fact that mere aging is now the main cause of going straight. Since youths are the most defiant prisoners, they should be scattered among older, wiser men, not segregated as now. In a community setting, prisons can expand work-and-study furloughs, arrange part-time release programs with industry, universities and therapy groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. At the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Conn., for example, Dictograph Products Inc. sponsors a training program for microsoldering hearing aids, hires the trained convicts after their release. Geared to problem solving, such treatment reconciles offenders with relatives, schools...
...statement clearly extended to civil as well as criminal proceedings, and such a development would expand small-bore cases in a geometrically progressive explosion. Divorces, housing problems, job denials, welfare claims-all such relatively tiny disputes would entitle the principals to legal representation. Now, even with the OEO law offices that have sprouted around the country, most such cases never enter the legal process at all unless the disputant can afford a lawyer or has a claim that seems likely to establish a precedent...
...United Ministry Counseling Service is an attempt to expand and centralize counseling in all areas, including problems related to the draft. (The Rev.) W. J. Schneider Chairman, United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe (The Rev.) T. H. Evans Chairman of Committee on Counseling
...eight C.A.B. regulated airlines. This will soon change. Already merged are Cordova with Alaska Airlines, which now plans to take over small Alaska Coastal Airlines. Seeing this trend toward bigness among the competition, Chairman Petersen and President Sigurd Wien, the only family member still active, are seeking to expand the new line's routes to nearby Siberia and faraway Chicago...