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...votes) edged out G.O.P. Incumbent John Lodge (brother of Cabot) in the 1954 gubernatorial race. As Governor, Ribicoff has faced Republican-controlled legislatures during most of his regime. Nonetheless, he has seen a surprising number of his major requests passed into law: one of the nation's stiffest traffic-safety programs, court reform, abolition of a 300-year-old system of county government, $350 million in bonds for new highways. Ribicoff is unlikely to be a Cabinet innovator, but should prove popular in carrying out orders of a chief whose welfare philosophy, he says, is "on all fours" with...
...paper and says hoarsely: "Nowhere is something." Dedicated Teacher Keables is a frustrated writer who treats each student as a kind of novel in progress. He carries on voluminous correspondence with old grads, often gets back weighty manuscripts for criticism. Since he teaches South High's stiffest senior English courses, he gets the best students. He also gets the best out of them...
Argentina has the stiffest import duties (a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some...
...historical novel. (A line like, "By gad, sir, she's as pretty a wench as ever I bedded!" seems right out of Forever Under.) Moreover, in his attempt to expand the scope of the eighteenth-century style to accommodate his expanded purpose, he resorts to frequent bursts of the stiffest, most intolerably pretentious sort of "fine writing...
...plainly lots of life yet in the collective farmer of Sde Boker and his Mapai Party. They had won new security for their country by the Sinai military campaign against Egypt exactly three years ago last week, and encouraged a new prosperity for their merchants by relaxing their stiffest controls. They had brought a flood of newcomers (and new social problems) from Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran. And they had convinced the young and the newly arrived of their party's forward look by running such attractive, vigorous new candidates as former Army Chief Moshe Dayan, 44, former Ambassador...