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...Godkin topic was "To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions," and Bundy's message was that the government is today the only possible agent of social reform. He pleaded with such fervor for the requisite extension of government powers that he almost ended up advocating a species of benevolent socialism for the United States...
...Club received a letter from Yale asking for delegates to a convention of the five colleges which had shown the most interest in football--Harvard, Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale. The purpose of the convention was to form an association which would set up a code of rules to govern intercollegiate football...
...avert future disorders. This week the committee-headed by Law Professor Caleb Foote and Graduate Student Henry E. Mayer-released a 250-page report that charged almost everybody involved in past troubles with pursuing "partisan ends" but also recommended some sound proposals as to how the school should govern itself...
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...
...ease the friction of occupation, the Israelis wisely decided to let the Arabs govern themselves as much as possible, and to ensure Arab cooperation they have invented a technique that might be called coercive noninterference. When the prewar mayor of Nablus (pop. 44,000) announced that he would resign rather than front for the Jews, the occupation authorities simply informed him that no one would be appointed to replace him; since the local government could not function without a mayor, that meant that it would undoubtedly collapse, throwing the town into chaos. The mayor stayed. When Arab teachers throughout...