Word: gov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech Tuesday Toomey cited the need to expose the great political influence which Harvard and M.I.T. wield. (It was rumored last year that the University's influence in Washington had been an important factor in getting Gov. Volpe to veto the stilts sale...
Schools open all over the country, except for the South. "We made so much progress last year, that we though we'd just set a while and catch our breath," Gov. Faubus says.... Harvard's tuition goes up again. President Pusey warns that he will tolerate no harassment of "our little feathered brothers." Cardinal Cushing agrees, and calls the pigeons "Massachusetts' finest...
Collins said that Gov. Volpe, who appoints the Boston police commissioner, did not invite the mayor to a meeting yesterday afternoon where "Biography of a Bookie Joint," a CBS film exposing corruption in the Boston police force, was discussed...
...than any questions of morality or archaism, seem to be behind the current furor over Blue Laws. The trouble actually started last June, when the Supreme Court declared the laws constitutional. The 1960 Legislature added to the problem by putting holidays under statutes which previously restricted only Sunday trade. Gov. Volpe sought clarification by appointing a 20-man commission, which studied the question for five months, and this week submitted its report...
...Alas for Gov. Volpe! He had hoped that the commission would present him with a neat bundle of bills which he could deliver to the Legislature at its next session. Instead he received three reports. The majority (ten men) recommended continuation of the present Sunday laws (under a new, non-religious name), with certain clarifications. The minority (nine men) agreed that the laws' name should be changed, but advocated a much more liberal set of statutes. The 20th member, the representative of a labor group, thought that both of the other reports were too extreme...