Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only once before, as state auditor. The salvos came early and fast at the reform-minded Governor, primarily over an issue that is one of the hottest facing state governments. The issue: reorganization of the morass of committees, agencies, boards and departments that set state policy. Bond is streamlining Missouri's government -but not without a fight. As he puts...
...Missouri's sprawling state bureaucracy consists of 87 departments and commissions that have grown up, layer upon layer, under the long Democratic rule. Instead of ousting faithful bureaucrats held over from previous administrations, many Governors simply created new agencies for their supporters...
...seven often overlapping agencies that deal with clean water. When members of the redundant committees would go to Washington to plead for appropriations or testify on bills, they sometimes presented opposing testimony. "We had no clout in Washington because the Federal Government didn't know what the hell Missouri wanted," says Bond...
...abuses were so flagrant that Governor Warren Hearnes appointed a commission to draw up re-organizational proposals. Eventually, the legislature drafted a constitutional amendment, which was supported by Missouri voters in a referendum. In January of 1973, after Hearnes had concluded the two terms permitted by Missouri law, Bond urged the legislature to take the last step and enact a specific reorganization law. Almost a year later, after a series of struggles between Bond and the legislature, both houses passed a bill acceptable to the Governor. Beginning in July, the state's agencies will be consolidated into 13 departments...
...campus seemed immune to the epidermis epidemic. At the University of Missouri, 35 men dressed only in sneakers, socks and hats streaked through "Greek Town," the fraternity-housing area. Near by, 15 coeds responded by running naked outside their dormitory, and 25 other unclothed girls preened at the windows - all to the tune of the Missouri fight song played by a trumpeter in the crowd of 1,500 gaping spectators. In Columbia, S.C., dozens of nude males and females ran and rode bi cycles round the University of South Carolina student center. In New York City, some 40 Columbia University...