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...equal-population rule, state legislatures play a large part in deciding what kind of representatives an urban area will have. Until the composition of most state legislatures is changed--and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on their apportionment--Congressional representation from most states will retain some rural bias. Because the courts and legislatures move slowly, the Court's recent rulings will probably have little effect until after the 1970 census. By that time, most central cities as well as rural areas will have lost large numbers of people, and suburbs will make most of the gains...
State criminal codes and common law spell out a variety of reasons for which a prospective juror may be disqualified by the judge for prejudicial cause-actually witnessing the crime, opposing the death sentence in a capital case, or simply admitting bias against either side...
Among the things those pieces of paper have bought is a big 75-year-old house on an 80-acre tract in Manhasset, L.I. Known as Kiluna Farm, it is a house that won't quit, rambling up, down and on the bias; it looks like ten shingle farmhouses delivered all at once by airdrop. "The floors are sagging, but it's comfortable," says Mrs. Paley. The walls are under pressure too. They hold up the massive frames that surround an impressive private art collection...
...readers would miss the point, the News detailed the rationale behind its strategy: "In view of the Earl Warren Supreme Court's long-standing tenderness toward Communists, any report this commission may give birth to will be open to suspicion of pro-Communist and anti-conservative bias...
...Ghana's Ambassador to Moscow, J. B. Elliot. Next day, as students again massed near the embassy, he closed the building (for "repairs" to damaged furniture), raised no objection as police herded the angry Ghanaians away. Elliot tried to laugh off the melee, dismissed talk of widespread bias against students as nothing but "rumors." Relations with Soviet students are cordial, he insisted. "But it's natural to take a punch at each other...