Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Factor. Congress' sudden sympathy for reform reflects that growing public desire for a change. What shape a proposed amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
Young Barry had certainly been right, as it turned out, to enter a special election for Congress. Last week he handily beat Democrat John K. Van de Kamp, 64,675 to 48,933, in a runoff in California's 27th District to replace Republican Ed Reinecke, who took over as the state's Lieutenant Governor when Robert Finch moved to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The sprawling 27th now stretches from suburban Los Angeles northward to rural Kern County. Young Barry ran far ahead of his father's 1964 showing in the district...
...devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from Arizona," he did devote 18-hour workdays campaigning to making it to Congress...
...from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made important contributions to China's nuclear-weapons program. Not that he was the only weaponry expert who moved into a position of influence in the party. Last week, as reports on the recently concluded Ninth Party Congress flooded out of Peking, the increasing pre-eminence of the military in China's politics was as easy to read as a big-character wall poster...
...Profits are the shock absorbers of the economy," says Assistant Commerce Secretary William Chartener. "When business slows down, the first place it is felt is typically in profits." This year, companies will be paying higher social security taxes on top of the now extended 10% surcharge. If Congress repeals the 7% investment tax credit, that will further crimp earnings...