Word: apportionments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, this system has shown an amazing durability, if not too much dynamism. Nine councilors get elected-almost always four from the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and five "independents." Together they apportion the City's bounty to their respective constituents try to keep the tax rate...
For the last two years, UNESCO has concerned itself closely with the problems of wiping out illiteracy. A 1965 Teheran Conference marked the start of a six country project. The six countries-- Iran, Mali, Algeria, Ecuador, Guinea, and Tanzania--were chosen from the 50 applicants for their "readiness": they all...
> Advanced, by a Senate Judiciary Committee vote of 9 to 7, Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's proposed constitutional amendment to allow a state to apportion one house of its legislature on a basis other than population. The committee then cleared, 14 to 2, a House-passed immigration bill...
In 1946, Justice Felix Frankfurter warned his Supreme Court colleagues against meddling with the apportion ment of political voting districts.
It ordered the special election under Plan A, with the provision that the new legislature draft another apportion ment plan acceptable under the state constitution. Plan A has been violently denounced by Democrats as favorable to Republicans, who lost control of the legislature last year for the first time in...