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Echeverria, who still has two years remaining of his six-year term, thus far has had little luck in reforming the system. His liberal, populist speeches have alarmed the rich and the conservative politicians and businessmen whose support he needs to make real reforms. Yet he has been unsuccessful in winning over the left, which considers his rhetoric hypocritical, since he has done little to bring about the social reforms that he so eloquently calls for. No one expects much change before his term expires, if then. Those who consider themselves potential kidnap victims-the rich and the powerful...
...blown heroes, but Tennessee's Buford Pusser tried in his own inimitable fashion to fill the bill. Pusser did not like what he saw when he came home to rural McNairy County from the Marines in the early '60s. He got himself elected sheriff and began a six-year crusade against moonshining, prostitution and gambling. Some opposed his methods, which occasionally bent the law in the course of upholding it, but none doubted his courage. He survived seven attempts on his life, including a 1967 ambush in which his wife was killed and half his face shot away...
Five new members of the Board of Overseers began six-year terms on the University's senior governing board on Commencement day last month. The new members of the 30-member board are: Andrew Heiskell of New York City, a 1936 graduate of the Business School and president of Time, Inc.; John U. Monro '34 of Birmingham, Ala., former dean of students here and now director of freshman students at Miles College; Elliot L. Richardson '41 of McLean, Va., former U.S. attorney general and secretary of Defense; Lloyd H. Smith, Jr. of San Francisco, a 1948 graduate of the Medical...
...including TIME Correspondent S. Chang, who attended primary school in prewar Japan. "Teachers in the main were well trained and the system, on the academic side, did well," he recalled last week. "But it did far better in brainwashing pupils in the cult of emperor worship. The whole six-year compulsory education was dedicated to fukoku kyohei [enrich the nation, strengthen soldiers]. Boys in the class were shaven-pated like Japanese soldiers in their barracks. Like soldiers, too, they were expected to snap to attention each time the teacher dropped that sacred word, tenno [emperor]. They did-like so many...
Many of Whitlam's domestic reforms were blocked, however, by an anomaly of the Australian constitution-the Senate. Though the 1972 elections gave Whitlam a 67-58 edge in the House, the Senate, with its six-year terms for members, remained firmly in the hands of the opposition Liberal-Country Party coalition. The opposition could count on 31 votes, while Labor had only 26 seats. The Australian Senate is supposed to act only as a slowing brake on the House of Representatives, with deliberative-but not veto-powers. In fact, the conservative-dominated body managed to stop Whitlam...