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Perhaps through overconfidence, Volpe was lax in his next campaign and he lost in 1962 to Democrat Endicott Peabody '42. (Denmark always seems to be involved in Republican fortunes. Volpe made a trip to Denmark during this campaign, and many observers feel that if he had spent the time campaigning in Massachusetts he would have been reelected...
...individual to the state. Says David Rowe, Yale professor of political science: "The Chinese Communists have reverted to some of the worst things in the history of Chinese civilization: super-elitism, perversion of education into indoctrination, conspiratorial politics." Yet the older forms of Chinese despotism were apt to be lax, since the country was too vast for tight control; the Communists, thanks to modern communications, are far more thorough...
...Britain has embraced deliberately discriminatory taxes to tinker with its troubled economy. That may well prove a high price to pay in order to placate foreign creditors without sacrificing prosperity, for it still fails to dig at the roots of Britain's problem: lax management and hidebound labor...
...just about everything except starting the Vietnamese war. The manufacturers deserve some knocks for arrogance and a laissez-faire attitude toward safety, but Nader and other recent anti-auto authors weaken their case by overstating it. The traffic tragedy is a compound of many factors: bad roads, loose licensing, lax police, lenient judges, drinking and-not least-auto construction. Says National Safety Council President Howard Pyle: "There is no single offender. They are all interlocked...
Some states and localities are inexcusably lax in granting driver's licenses to obvious incompetents. In New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Wyoming, drug addicts and mental defectives can get licenses. In Kansas, one state official discovered not long ago that 10% of the people receiving aid-to-the-blind payments were licensed to take the wheel. Children of 14 can be licensed in many states; in Montana, some 13-year-olds are permitted to drive-although one study by New York State showed that drivers under 18 have an accident rate 70% higher than older ones. Most drivers...