Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swirls like a whirlpool bath. For the sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have remained linked together, but all of them are usually ready to reform and go into the breach once again...
Last week Castello Branco took a hopeful step toward detribalizing Brazil's politics by signing into law a new electoral code and a tough party reform. The new code is intended to put Brazil's election procedures into coherent form for the first time, banning coalition candidates in mayoral as well as state and federal deputy races so as to reduce confusion. The other reform measure is designed to cut the number of parties down to manageable size and ensure that they have meaningful grass-roots representation...
What the case shows most clearly is the urgent need for divorce reform not only in New York but also throughout a country where one out of four marriages now ends in divorce. To many lawyers, the present diversity of state laws spawns fraud as well as inequity. The answer is a uniform matrimonial code based on modern realities...
Disdaining the complaints, Pearson announced a Cabinet reshuffle that was designed to look like reform but was at best a halfway housecleaning. To his credit, Pearson did take care of one little problem that was hanging fire. Guy Rouleau, the P.M.'s own parliamentary secretary, had been involved in the case and had resigned; now Pearson drummed Rouleau out of the House of Commons and the party altogether...
...Toward Reform. The prospects for still lower taxes helped lift business optimism last week. On Wall Street the recently battered stock market rose for the second straight week, and the Dow-Jones industrial average was up four points, to 879.49. Wall Street was further buoyed by news of another kind of surplus: the U.S. balance of payments during the second quarter ran in surplus-by about $250 million-for the first time in four years. If the trend continues, the Government will be able to relax some of its restrictions on profitable U.S. lending and investing abroad. Now that...