Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First to Be Netted. What stirred most curiosity was a Defense Department manpower study completed a year ago but shelved because of the Viet Nam war, until persistent pressure from Congress forced its release last week. The report offered no major departure, let alone any reform as radical as Defense Secretary McNamara's recent proposal for a whole new system of universal service, either military or civilian, as an answer to the draft's "inequity." Indeed, the report defended the present system as "basically sound...
...Yorker was clearly on the way to becoming its No. 1 Democrat as well. But there was still a pocket of hostility within Tammany Hall, and some coolness between Bobby and the other two important factions, the satellite Liberal Party and the liberal-leaning reform Democrats...
Joining the chorus of indignation, Kennedy huddled with Liberal Party leaders and reform Democrats, who proceeded to make their own deal to wrest the Democratic nomination from Klein in the primary and put up a Democratic-Liberal candidate in the general election. The Liberals dumped their earlier nominee, the reformers deserted Klein, and the new coalition plumped for Justice Samuel Silverman, 58, a Klein colleague on the Supreme Court. Kennedy personally talked him into running...
...years later, Volpe, again campaigning primarily on his own name and on promises of reform, defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Francis X. Bellotti for the governorship. Volpe was aided by many anti-Bellotti votes in that election, which was quite close. Bellotti had defied an unwritten rule of good political behavior by running against (and defeating) Peabody for the Democratic nomination. Many friends of Peabody's resented this and voted for Volpe...
...figurehead proffered in the name of unity, Gengras is an outspoken progressive who wants to reform party and state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority...