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...Governors should have four-year terms and freedom to seek re-election as often as they like. At present, eleven Governors are elected to two-year terms. Eleven others cannot succeed themselves-a restriction that can make them lame ducks the morning after their inauguration. Governors' salaries should be at least $30,000 a year; the Governor of Arkansas now makes $10,000 (not that the incumbent, Winthrop Rockefeller, needs more), and 17 other chief executives get $20,000 or less. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor should be from the same party and should be the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: In Bad Shape | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...York's highest state court. Yes, said comparable courts in Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts. All of them used the Supreme Court's clearly unclear guidelines, such as whether pornography has "redeeming social interest." Now the learned Justices must curl up with Fanny Hill and subjectively decide for themselves-a chore that the American Civil Liberties Union urges them to give up entirely by declaring that all published material is protected by the First Amendment unless it creates a "clear and present danger" of antisocial conduct. The A.C.L.U. makes its point in the case of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: U.S. Fever Chart | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Republicans might suspect him of demagoguing around, but they couldn't really lay a finger on him. After all, he sought only for America what Americans seek for themselves-a strong nation and the good things of life. He knows what it is to be poor and he hates poverty. He also knows what it is to be wealthy, so he strives for prosperity. "I can't remember a time," says former Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard Hall, "when a President had prosperity and poverty going for him at the same time." But is it demagoguery to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: When Patriotism & Politics Coincide | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Peter Loves Mary (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). First of a new series in which Peter " Lind Hayes and Mary Healy more or less play themselves-a young married couple who divide their time between show-business careers and family life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Oct. 17, 1960 | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...Duke & Duchess of Windsor finally had a U.S. summer home all to themselves-a French provincial-chateau-style affair in Locust Valley, L.I., right next to a golf course. They sublet it for two months. Up from the South, they moved in, then packed their bags for a week in Washington and a houseparty with Railroader Robert R. Young at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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