Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California gained eight seats in the 1960 census (while New York, in contrast, lost two), and the legislature saw that all eight were picked up by Democrats. In Los Angeles Country, Republicans and Democrats gained almost exactly the same number of votes in Congressional races, but Democrats won eleven and Republicans four. But California legislators apparently did not anticipate the equal-population rule, and districts there vary from the average by as much as thirty per cent...
...gross national product has grown steadily. It now has five universities where it had none in 1947, and its primary-school enrollment has more than tripled (from 820,000 to 2,600,000) in the same time. But Sir Abubakar has his problems. Nigeria's last official census was in 1952, and since not only political but economic power hangs on the numerical balance between the feudal north and the more progressive south...
Nigerians want desperately to know how many of which are where. Two weeks ago, "preliminary" results of last fall's census were released, showing an astounding 64% jump, to 55.6 million people. Since the main "increase" came in the politically dominant north, suspicious southerners cried foul. Riots broke out, and more than a thousand students in Ibadan chartered buses and headed for Lagos to demonstrate. They were turned back by steel-helmeted cops with tear...
...ministers to help resolve tensions in racially mixed areas; it plans to put pressure on banks to use church funds only for projects that foster integration, such as unsegregated housing. This fall, 20,000 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish laymen in Houston will cooperate on a city-wide church census. Mutual concern for backsliders has tempered ecclesiastical competition somewhat. Undermanned Catholic dioceses in the Southwest no longer complain when Protestant missions minister to Mexican-Americans who may be Catholic by birth and baptism but not by any demonstrated devotions. Many local councils of churches are now planning carefully to avoid...
...Boston School Committee demonstrated twice Monday night that it is not completely immune to reason. First it voted 4-1 to cooperate with the State Board of Education's order that each local community take a racial census of its schools. In doing so, Committee members were merely practicing the respect for authority which they preached so loudly before the school boycott...