Word: governors
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Thank you for the article on Governor Jerry Brown's energy and space programs [Jan. 30]. I find more and more to like about that renegade politician; he seems to wield his power with intelligence and without dollar waste. Right or wrong, the man has both courage and vision...
Providence was particularly hard hit. With main roads impassable after the 26-in. snowfall, Governor J. Joseph Garrahy ordered all Rhode Island businesses, except for grocery stores, to close. Not until this week was the state expected to return to normal. By comparison, the blizzard left New York City paralyzed for a mere 24 hours and entirely spared the Midwest, which was still digging out from a late January blizzard, that region's worst in a century...
With roads in Massachusetts clogged by mounds of snow, Governor Michael Dukakis banned all public-bus and private-car travel, but not before thousands of motorists were already stranded...
Because the Federal Government overshadows the statehouses, first-term Governors can rarely expect to become national figures. It is different, however, when they are considered possible contenders for the presidency. That is why attention has been focused on two of the rookies elected in 1976: Illinois' Republican Governor James Thompson, 41, and West Virginia's Democratic Governor John D. Rockefeller IV, 40, nephew of former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller...
...have it on good authority, kids, that Governor Dukakis is planning to lift the "Rock Emergency" that he declared in the wake of last week's snowstorm within the next month or so. That ought to be good news for fans of such groups as Edgar Winter, The Fugs, Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, Benny, Greene and Rickles, all of which have been stranded out at Logan waiting for a cab that will take them to the Music Hall. I placed a call there (put?) yesterday afternoon, and the impressario on duty assured me that as soon as the groups...