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After six years of fighting a hostile Democratic machine, Endicott Peabody has won a high elective office in the Commonwealth. He brings to the Governorship ambitious plans for reforming many of the archaic, corrupt practices of Massachusetts government. Peabody has proposed constitutional reforms which would strengthen the authority of a woefully impotent executive, reduce the workload of an overburdened legislature, and strike at corruption in Massachusetts by ending the confusion which surrounds much activity on Beacon Hill...
William S. Barnes, Chairman of the University Committee on Inter American Affairs, announced that the University has received a $150,000 grant to strengthen Latin American Studies in the University. The grant was part of a $1 million grant allotted by the Ford Foundation to six American Universities. The first allotment of the grant will begin in 1963, and will extend over a three year period. The money will be used primarily to enhance a faculty exchange program with Latin American Universities...
Unequal Equation. The U.S.'s Jupiter IRBM bases in Turkey were constructed in 1960-61, not clandestinely but only after a publicly announced agreement between the U.S. and Turkey. The purpose of the U.S. bases was not to blackmail Russia but to strengthen the defense system of NATO, which had been created as a safeguard against Russian aggression. As a member of NATO, Turkey welcomed the bases as a contribution to her own defense...
...same. The immediate assumption was that this would hurt the Democrats for whom they had planned to stump. Yet there was a supposition that the nation would want to unite behind its President-and perhaps behind his party as well. Again, went the figuring, the crisis seemed likely to strengthen incumbents of both parties in cases where their opponents have never been tested in high public office...
...Western alliance, as usu al, seemed in disarray, and practical moves toward Western European unity were for the time being suspended. Yet the relentless logic of what Harold Macmillan called Europe's new Renaissance made it plain that union will come, and that it will strengthen the alliance...