Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bothered by the rejection, Milhaud gave no sign. At his apartment in the heart of Paris' bouncy Pigalle district, he hardly had time to relax between chores. Besides busily attending rehearsals for the Paris Opera's revival of his 1938 opera Medee, he had just finished incidental music for the Paul Claudel play, L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara, and was starting a new orchestral composition. Meantime, he was looking ahead to a batch of forthcoming performances of his works -including Musique pour Lisbonne, a chamber piece that he has composed especially for this spring...
...eral court system. It is a job of immense frustration. Some courts have been swamped by the growing crime rate, all of them must struggle to cope with the increasing number of Americans who sue to settle a dispute. Yet in the past five years, only 35 new district judgeships have been added to the existing 307 to deal with the greater work load. The result is anything but speedy trial-particularly in the large urban areas. "Insufferable backlogs are normal rather than the exception in many jurisdictions," the Chief Justice said recently. Last week he acted...
...target was the 22-judge Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan and is the busiest federal court in the U.S. His solution was pragmatic and to the point. He assigned eleven federal judges from areas as far-flung as California and Tennessee to sit temporarily in New York. Each of the eleven visitors, whose own home courts are relatively up to date, will hear civil jury cases in New York for a month; the whole program will continue for at least two months in an effort to reduce the waiting period for civil cases, which...
...American Civil Liberties Union, which contends that state aid to parochial schools violates the separation of church and state and undermines the public school system. Many Protestant church leaders have equally strong feelings about it. In Providence, R.I., this month, the Rev. C. Clifford Sargent, superintendent of the Methodist district, asked that a message be read from the district's pulpits urging defeat of the Rhode Island tuition grant bill. In Pennsylvania, state aid to parochial schools has been opposed by a number of religious groups, including the mostly Protestant state Council of Churches...