Word: rhodes
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...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...
...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and Rhode Island are holding constitutional conventions this summer, and as many as 16 other states may soon revamp outdated charters.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...
Whatever the level of federal bil lions, the U.S. is going to need the kind of overview offered by urbanologists like Moynihan if its cities are to survive and thrive. Last spring, Rhode Island's Providence College awarded Moynihan an honorary degree that was accompanied by a particularly apt citation: "You have dared to throw light on some of the most frightening problems facing urban dwellers, not to elicit common agreement with your solutions so much as to force us to look where we would rather not." Moynihan and the other urbanologists may not have all the answers...
THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON will be at the University of Rhode Island for the Kingston Summer Theater Festival until Aug. 27 with Tango, by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, two one-acters by Murray Schisgal, The Typists and The Tiger, and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...