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...casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not the storm that turned out the Sunday crowds. Rhode Island was engaged in a well-planned exercise in preventive medicine...
...estimated that the state contained 52,000 children, aged one to twelve, who had never had measles or been vaccinated against it. Faced with mounting evidence that ordinary red or "seven-day" measles, as distinct from German measles, kills or cripples more children than had previously been recognized, the Rhode Island Medical Society decided on a blitz campaign to "end measles now, once and for all," within its borders...
...letters, Shaw lectured, hectored, reminded, advised, admonished, informed, reproached, insulted, encouraged, saluted and made love to an astonishing range of people. He wrote to women with the vanity of a lyrebird in a coopful of Rhode Island Reds. To one, he declared: "No use in looking for human sympathy from me. I am your very good friend, but hard as nails." Busy too. "No," he wrote to Alice Lockett, a non-bluestocking who wanted a date in a week in which he had to do three articles and two lectures. "See you this week! Avaunt, sorceress: not this month...
...tolerate the idea of any public employees' joining unions-and nearly all forbid police to do so. Even so, apart from the privilege of striking, most public employees now have almost the same rights as private employees in at least eight states-California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin. Such states have begun to use many techniques to promote bargaining-for example, fact-finding reports that rouse public pressure for settlement, binding arbitration on grievances arising from signed contracts, and advisory arbitration to settle new contract terms...
That could be difficult. Long has staunch supporters in the Senate, an admirer in Lyndon Johnson, and the family stomach for infighting-as he showed last January when he defeated Rhode Island's John Pastore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney for the whip's job. This time around, Pastore, at least, has declared himself out of the running. Said he: "I see no reason why Long should not continue as whip along with his other committee assignments. So far as the whip's office is concerned, I was lukewarm to it last year, and today...