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Earlier this week the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association invited all city bar associations to an emergency conference to discuss the bill. Dr. Calvin Brainard, professor of finance and insurance at the University of Rhode Island, and a former insurance underwriter, submitted a 71-page report on Keeton's scheme to the Trial Lawyers Association. Brainard argued that the new plan would benefit bad drivers and that it would not reduce rates...
...Michigan's George Romney, Maryland's Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Colorado's John Love and South Dakota's Nils...
...final eliminations get under way this week, Bus Mosbacher is tak ing no chances on his crew's losing its fighting edge. Breakfast is served at 7:30 in East Bourne Lodge, the mansion on Rhode Island Avenue, which the Intrepid syndicate has leased for the summer as a dormitory for Bus and his boys. A cheery "good morning" greets early risers who come to the table fresh from their two-mile run, and something else is in store for the slugabeds who forgot how hard it is to sneak up a gravel driveway at 3 a.m. without waking...
...Cover) Shed no nostalgic tears for New port. The great "Gilded Age" of the early 1900s - when O.H.P. Belmont's carriage horses used to sleep on pure white linen sheets, and William Fahnestock festooned the trees on his estate with 14-carat gold artificial fruits-has passed. But Rhode Island's "Queen of Resorts" still has its cachet and its names: the Auchinclosses, the Dukes, the Donahues, the Drexels, Lorillards, Woolworths and Hartfords...
Some states are groping toward solutions. New York and Rhode Island are holding constitutional conventions this summer, and as many as 16 other states may soon revamp outdated charters. California is trying to attract better legislators with better pay (annual salaries were raised from $6,000 to $16,000 last year), research staffs and offices of their own. In Illinois, where lawmakers use corridors as offices, a new $18 million legislative office building will soon be built. But improvements come slowly. State governments are more often characterized by "stagnation and inertia," says the C.E.D. report, than by drive and initiative...