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Assault in Three Ways. Chafee comes naturally by his political interests. His great-grandfather, Henry Lippitt, was Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877. A great-uncle, Charles Warren Lippitt, was Governor from 1895 to 1897. His uncle, Zechariah Chafee, a noted Harvard law professor, ran for the Providence board of aldermen in the early 1900s, took what Governor Chafee calls a real "shellacking...
Still, just over the past year he vetoed 55 Democratic bills. Some, he insists, were"dangerous" to the state. Others were downright silly. One, for example, would have provided that every car sold in Rhode Island be equipped with a device that would sound a warning when the ignition key was on but seat belts were left unfastened. Says Chafee: "There wasn't a manufacturer in the country who put out such a device."Fee Saving. Chafee also presents an image in the best tradition of New England frugality. He saved architects' fees by designing his own home...
...Washington, Senate Democrats must decide who their new majority whip will be. The current favorite is Rhode Island's John Pastore, one of the Senate's sharpest debaters and the 1964 Democratic Convention keynoter. Other possibilities: Louisiana's Russell Long, Maine's Edmund Muskie, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, Florida's George Smathers...
...Rhode Island called a December constitutional convention to reapportion the legislature as required by the U.S. Supreme Court. Two consecutive sessions of the state legislature failed to reach agreement on reapportionment...
...with towering antennas, amplifying the signals and piping them into homes by coaxial cables strung on telephone or utility poles. Serving mostly outlying areas, cable TV has grown into a $750 million business that includes 1,450 systems and 1.6 million subscribers spread over all states except Alaska and Rhode Island...