Word: congressmen
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...scarcely 35% of the eligible Negroes bother to vote in local elections up North; by contrast, 85% of the Jews vote, and get commensurate rewards when politicians pass out patronage or nominations. New York's 16% Negro population elects only one of the city's 19 U.S. Congressmen, two of the 37 city councilmen...
CAMPAIGN '66 (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Mike Wallace reports on "The Democrats.' In 1966 the Great Society meets its first election test and the program will focus n some of the 48 freshmen Congressmen who rode L.B.J.'s coattails to Washington in 1964, including one who is All the Way With LB.J. and another who calls himself a Bobby Kennedy...
Chicken Feed. In fact, though few would admit it, most Congressmen welcomed the return to Washington for at least a few days a week. Not only could they thus find a respite from the grind of campaigning, but could also explain to constituents-at every opportunity-that urgent affairs of state demanded their presence in the Capital...
Until recently, Southern Congressmen who denounced the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...
...right-or alibi-to segregate patients if they judge that integrated rooms might prove "injurious" to their health. For another, it approved a $ 1,000,000 cut in HEW's civil rights enforcement budget. In addition, the Senate-approved Demonstration Cities bill was running into resistance from Congressmen who said they were getting complaints from constituents that "we don't need a Demonstration Cities bill-we already have city demonstrations...