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Quinn proclaimed himself "the happiest man in Massachusetts." But Kevin White should have been even happier. On that day he witnessed the successful completion of a very risky and daring political ploy. The tax bill which Volpe had signed that morning was one designed to enable the state government to assume the costs of all local welfare programs. In the summer of 1967, the General Court authorized the Commonwealth to take over all the welfare programs administered by the cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them...
...With all the hell I get," avers Lieut. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, "I have less power than most anybody else." A lot of draft-age Americans would be happier if that were so. In fact, the crusty Selective Service director in recent weeks has fought the U.S. Justice Department, the White House, and a large segment of Congress, the press, the academic world and the public to a standstill. For a man of 74 who is functionally blind,*Hershey seems as invulnerable as he is intractable...
...their five days, whether their activities have been licit or illicit, cultural or psychedelic, they dutifully turn up at the R&R center for the trip back to Viet Nam, tired, probably broke, but almost certainly happy -or at least, happier...
...Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four months longer than I would have otherwise...
Heckscher responded immediately, "Henry Reed has a mistaken pastoral ideal of parks and landscapes. He simply doesn't like to see things happen in the parks. But what good is a park if people are afraid to use it?" Litter is a problem, but Heckscher is happier worrying about garbage than violence and vandalism. "We've been lucky in the parks," he says. "We've been able to work great changes by simply calling upon the people, by saying 'Come on in, the weather's fine.' And the people have responded...