Word: differing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Price Jr., Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration, who served as assistant to the first Hoover Commission, said last night "opinions will always differ on his policies as President, but all at this time will unite in remembering and applauding his great contributions" in war relief and government reorganization...
That Kennedy cannot vote in New York does mean he does not understand its problems. Today the entire Northeastern seabord shares the same crises--urban blight, overcongestion, rising crime rates, and a lack of adequate transportation. The problems of Boston and Washington differ only in size and complexity not in kind. New York, never a bastion of provincialism, should welcome the best talent available, and Robert Kennedy in his role of a proponent for a mass transportation bill and for new approaches to the attack on poverty showed a fundamental understanding a megalopolis. Homegrown mediocrity is not substitute for imported...
...basis of districts "as nearly of equal population as is practicable." Can one house of a bicameral legislature be organized on a nonpopulation basis to reflect minority interests? No, says the Court, because such a house might veto majority interests. Even so, the order does not preclude two different kinds of houses. As long as both are "substantially" based on population, they can differ in numerical size, length of terms, district size and district delegation (single-member or multimember). One house can also balance off "minor inequities" in the other's geographical representation. The Court does not expect "mathematical...
...President's trip, to refer to the Secret Service the information it had about Oswald. The Commission has concluded, however, that the FBI took an unduly restrictive view of its role in preventive intelligence work prior to the assassination." Adds the Commission: "The Secret Service and the FBI differ as to whether Oswald fell within the category of 'threats against the President' which should be referred to the Service...
What is the lesson of the north today? Much has been made of the sexual and suicidal pattern of the Nordic countries. Some argue that it is all the fault of the welfare state. The statistics are murky and conflicting. True, mating habits in rural Scandinavia may differ from accepted norms in Syracuse or Sacramento. This probably has more to do with rural isolation and the long winter months than with such newfangled ideas as pensions for Grandpa or socialized playpens. In any case, from Oslo to Stockholm to Copenhagen, no one seems to mind all that much. Busily building...