Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...code to have real impact, it must provide the machinery for scrutinizing members' private incomes and criteria for judging the legitimacy of non-Government earnings. There is widespread resistance in Congress to any such reform, in part because many members fear that their financial affairs could become grist for their political opponents and for muckrakers. There is also the practical problem of deciding how far to go in demanding the disclosure of private income. Should Congress, for example, have the right to delve into the accounts of members' relatives? Without that right, it would have a hard time...
Whichever view prevails, the time may have passed when Congressmen could give lip service to ethical reform while waiting for public indignation to evaporate. Having already suffered through the humiliations of Dodd and Powell, Congress now faces an investigation of Missouri's Senator Edward Vaughan Long, whose financial connections with Jimmy Hoffa's chief counsel were recently disclosed by LIFE. "We cannot," says Williams, "let those charges go unanswered...
Although the American Medical Association was a progressive, reform-minded organization in the first third of the 20th century, it has since suffered a severe case of intellectual atherosclerosis. Last week, as some 12,000 of its members pounded the Atlantic City boardwalk between sessions of its annual convention, the A.M.A.'s 242-member house of delegates voted to catch up with the present in several areas, and also cast a constructive eye toward the future...
...that a number of states are liberalizing their laws to permit more therapeutic abortions, the A.M.A. also conceded that its 1871 rule against abortion, except "with a view to the safety of the child," was "antiquated." "Change and reform in this area are inevitable," said the policy statement. It condoned abortions on essentially the same grounds as those recommended by the American Law Institute, already voted into law in Colorado, North Carolina and California. Among the differences: the A.M.A. would require "documented medical evidence" of the need for an abortion, and rape or incest would have to be "legally established...
Married. Dr. Albert Sabin, 60, developer of the oral polio vaccine; and Mrs. Jane Blach Warner, attractive Cincinnati divorcee; both for the second time (his first wife died of a drug overdose last year); in a Reform Jewish ceremony at Cincinnati's Holmes Hospital, where the bridegroom, confined to a wheelchair, was recovering from bites inflicted by his pet dachshund...