Word: reformers
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...element of the Nixon proposal is the elimination of congressional control over the Post Office. The Nixon reform would establish an independent Government agency called the U.S. Postal Service to be run by a nine-man board of directors, seven of whom would be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The office of Postmaster General, a Cabinet-rank post, would be abolished...
Cash for Construction. Under this plan, postal workers would be transferred into a new postal-career service with full retention of their civil service benefits. Since Congress would no longer be setting wage rates, the employees would have the right to collective bargaining. Postal rates under the Nixon reform would be recommended by a separate three-man advisory group whose suggestions would be acted upon by the nine-man controlling board; however, rate changes would still require congressional approval...
...evening early this month Gilligan talked with a small group at Quincy House about obstacles to political reform--and to reform candidates. He made no sweeping statements about the decline of democracy, but his remarks did suggest that electoral politics has become the dismal science. And in a painfully true truism, he also admitted that money talks. "I would have taken the financial aspect much more seriously if I had it to do over again," Gilligan reflected wryly. "I thought the money would always turn up somewhere once the campaign began to roll. It didn't. We had to close...
Help from Home. Even so, a surprisingly large number of parents contacted by TIME reporters are far from angry at the rebels. Of those willing to talk, a majority approved their children's goals but opposed the use of violence, partly because they favor peaceful campus reform and partly because they worry greatly about their children's safety. Contrary to much theory about the activists' psychological motives, there seems to be little or no generational conflict within such families. Most are very close. In fact, many of the rebels first acquired their liberal ideals from their parents...
Reddening but unruffled, Romney continued: "There is nothing more vulnerable than entrenched success. The demand for reform is growing. People are already talking about compulsory arbitration in the building trades...