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...bill requires that congressional districts must be both contiguous and compact - no more political finagling that over the years has shaped many districts into incomprehensible geographical puzzles - and specifies that the population of any district may not vary by more than 15% from the average population of other districts in the same state. A total of 130 districts in 32 states now fail to meet that population provision; they would be required to correct matters before the 1966 congressional elections...
...returned to buying Chrysler products. Sales of the slab-sided big Chrysler have increased by 69% this year, and Plymouth, boosted by the sleek, lengthened Fury, has gained 47%-the two greatest increases in the industry. Dodge sales are up 19%. The racy, fastback Barracuda, carved out of the compact Valiant as a quick and inexpensive answer to Ford's Mustang, has more than compensated for a decline in Valiant sales...
...covenant is similar to the covenant under King Josiah in ancient Israel, Williams later explained. Its form has evolved through the ages and was used for the Mayflower compact and in the churches of the New England Way in the 17th century...
Within weeks after assuming office, he initiated the "New England Corrections Compact," a revolutionary idea which has saved money for the state and disappointment for its prisoners. Under this and compact, the first such program in any state, prisoners may be transferred from the institutions of one state to the institutions of another, thus facilitating visiting privileges, and also enabling each inmate to be placed in the type of institution best suited to him. Massachusetts inmates may thus be sent to Vermont's highly developed youth offender training center, while Vermont, for example, can send retarded criminals to the Massachusetts...
...Kiekhaefer's compact 60-h.p. "in-board-outboard," the smallest unit on the market for 14-ft. to 18-ft. boats. Modified from a Renault automobile engine, the transom-mounted motor is as easy to install and operate as an outboard but leaves more room than an inboard, facilitates land transportation (because unlike straight inboards only the easily liftable outboard section hangs below the hull...