Word: algerism
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...former Senator Prescott Bush, to run against liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. The Democrats are beginning to react. In Dallas County, where eight of the nine state representatives are Republicans, they are trying to patch up a twelve-year-old feud, have hopes of giving five-term G.O.P. Congressman Bruce Alger a tough fight for reelection...
Where the grown-up of the 1900's lived enthralled by Horatio Alger's tales of the success brought about by honest virtue, today's adults savor passages like this one, from a recent popular novel...
Similar - or worse - disparities exist in congressional districts throughout the U.S. Republican John B. Bennett represents 177,431 people from the Upper Peninsula Twelfth District of Michigan, which he calls the nation's "smallest" and, less accurately, "the most important." Republican Bruce Alger represents 951,527 people in and around Dallas; his Fifth Congressional District of Texas is the nation's most populous. Yet both Bennett and Alger have one vote apiece in the House of Representatives. Such variations mean that voters in overpopulated districts are underrepresented in the House, and vice versa. This, on the face...
Furthermore, any redistricting along the lines indicated by the Supreme Court would almost certainly give more Representatives to Southern urban areas, where Republicans are strong, and take Representatives away from rural areas, where reactionary, racist Democrats often rule. Thus Bruce Alger's Dallas district might be divided into two or three, any or all of which could go Republican. Dallas is only one example of a heavily populated area where Republican strength is high. Nationwide, out of 66 Congressional districts with populations of more than 500,000, the Republican party currently holds 34 seats...
...incidents of literary or historical interest, yields a density of only 79. Wall Street Wanton, "an original Nightstand Book," sports 16 erogenous incidents. These produce a density of 16.00, since the volume has only one mitigating feature, the historical comparison it suggests between the wholesome perserverance of Horatio Alger's heroes and Cindy Smith's way of making it to the top today. Sin on the Continent featuring a "Revealing Fold Out Cover," chronicles choice episodes in the adventures of Art Romer, a systems engineer from Furitvale, Idaho, who specializes in the bored wives of traveling businessmen. With 18 prurient...