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Last December Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff decided to take drastic action to reduce his state's automobile accident rate. On his order (and a warning that no crackdown would mean no reappointment), Connecticut judges began handing speeders 30-day license suspensions on first arrest and 60-day suspensions for second offenses. With mixed prudence and pride, Connecticut motorists trod more lightly on the gas pedal. Last week Ribicoff happily announced the first fruits of his campaign: in the first three months of this year, Connecticut traffic fatalities were nearly 15% lower (down to 63) than...
This does not mean that an effective new majority consensus cannot be developed that is competent to cope with these questions. It simply means that they have not yet been brought within the range where the political processes which create such an agreement are operating. The attention of the political parties has remained focused, in a manner I have already described, upon diminishing areas of disagreement within the broad political consensus that emerged in response to the domestic crisis of the 1930's. Because of this failure to grasp the significance of the newer and infinitely more momentous challenge...
...late world war, I was never a fascist; that I never said I was a fascist; that I never was a member or even a fellow traveler of any party, movement or group calling itself fascist; and that I never "supported the Fascist cause," whatever that phrase may mean...
After the longest special conference of the meet, an NCAA official announced that the machine would be abandoned for the remainder of the meet. "This does not mean that the machine has not worked satisfactorily thus far," he added, in a reassuring tone...
What it did mean, however, was that the NCAA had publicly renounced its "machine." Feeling among the officials seemed to favor a return to the old methods. But such feeling is not only absurd; it is dangerous. The "machine" failed, not because a machine must fail, but because it still relied on the highly fallible human element. Until the NCAA comes up with a fully automatic judging mechanism, confusion will continue to plague its competitions