Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What President Truman wanted was specific legislation outlawing the gerrymander and requiring the states to divide their districts into compact units of between 300,000 and 400,000 people (the census basis on which seats would be apportioned ideally). While few Congressmen would argue about the unfairness of the existing system, there was little chance that they would enact the anti-gerrymander legislation in a hurry. The hard political fact was that too many of them owed their jobs to the shoestrings and saddlebags...
...thoroughly reorganized and more compact Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletic Sports will soon supplant the 23-man group which resigned secretly the day after the Yale football game, it was reported last week. The new chairman is George Witney '97, president of the Board of Overseers and chairman of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan...
...time something like a new-angled triangle, and Paul Kelly as the husband, Uta Hagen as the wife and Steven Hill as the director give it tingle and intensity wherever possible. But the real story, which Odets walks up to and then quickly away from, is a compact little tragedy of misunderstanding. It is the story of a woman whose husband is killing himself and dragging her with him and who, for a final indignity, is accused of his murder. It needs austere telling without a false word or a florid gesture-let alone the director's sudden lovemaking...
Three lectures which General Lucius D. Clay delivered here last year have been published in a compact 5 by 61/2 inch book. Clay's report, and it is a report rather than an analysis, is the story of Germany from 1945 to 1950 and is an outline as sparse as the format. The reader will look in vain for historical data in "Germany and the Fight for Freedom." Clay is content in this book to present a rationale of the general policy which he administered and played a large role in formulating...