Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reform, Not a Wipeout. Rebutting such pro-pot statements, Dr. Donald Louria, chairman of the New York State Council on Drug Addiction, testified that marijuana can induce various psychoses, undermine already unstable personalities, and cause acute intoxication. He also directly contradicted Dr. Fort and contended that pot does tend to lead to use of other drugs. Both sides plan to field at least a dozen more experts before the hearing is over. Only then will the judge decide on Oteri's motion to declare the Massachusetts marijuana law unconstitutional on grounds that it is "irrational and arbitrary," and that...
...Suzman entered Parliament in 1953 after winning an uncontested seat as a member of the United Party--the official opposition to the government's Nationalist Party. During the following six years, she became increasingly disenchanted with her party's "opposition" to the blossoming racist regime. After attempting reform from within, Mrs. Suzman and 12 of her colleagues broke from the UP in 1959 and formed the Progressive Party. The subsequent elections in '61 were a disaster for the Progressive Party: only Mrs. Suzman survived, and since then she has remained the sole voice against apartheid...
Within Pulitzer, writes Swanberg, were "two warring individuals-Pulitzer the reformer and Pulitzer the salesman." On the one hand, Pulitzer's two principal newspapers-the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World-showed a zeal for news gathering and a passion for reform that changed the shape of U.S. journalism. On the other hand, Pulitzer built up circulation by pandering to the lowest public tastes...
...I.A.C.P. was founded in 1893, but after the '20s and '30s, when it helped push police reform, it faded into little more than a great-to-see-you group. Then, six years ago, Quinn Tamm arrived. A careful FBI agent who had made his way up to the rank of assistant director, Tamm found six staffers working out of makeshift Washington offices when he took on the I.A.C.P. job. Now there are 70 on the staff, and the association has its own building. The white-haired, leathery-faced Tamm, 57, has placed particular emphasis on upgrading the training...
...Prison reform must have gone further in Sweden than anywhere else in the world. Recently, in a small, unnamed community, a 30-year-old man moved into a four-room house with his fiancée (they plan to marry soon). Dressed in civilian clothes and holding down a full-time job, he seems like anyone else; his neighbors do not know he is serving the last two years of a five-year felony prison sentence. The live-out prisoner checks in regularly-and clandestinely-with a prison official, but otherwise lives a free life...