Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands of cases have been pending in local and federal district courts for years. In the crush, prosecutors and magistrates are tempted to bypass the judicial process by dismissing many cases wholesale. Snowed under by the work load, harried judges seldom have the time to learn what they should about the man in the dock. Sentences are handed down to fit the crime, not the defendant...
...justice of the peace, rural counterpart of the lower court. Today the J.P. still operates in 35 states, and in most of these his pay comes from the fees and fines extracted from parties brought before him. His duties, says the commission, should be transferred to circuit or district courts...
...station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly 1,000 collected outside...
...entirely in social and economic policy. De Gaulle has already promised the voters that 1967 will be the great "Annee Sociale"-Welfare Year. At some point after the Assembly opens, he will also probably make some changes in his Cabinet; Premier Georges Pompidou, who won handily in his own district, seems likely to remain, but Loser Couve de Murville is expected to be replaced. Apparently, though, De Gaulle is not overly disappointed with the makeup of the Assembly itself. The opposition will be strong enough to give his government constant trouble but too weak to put it in mortal danger...
Nonetheless, the parents have cause for complaint. P.S. 80, for example, is an obsolescent fortress, erected in 1924, that serves Manhattan's East Harlem district. Nearly all of the 886 students in the primary grades are Negro or Puerto Rican. An alarming 82% of its second-graders, 90% of its fourth-graders and 94% of its fifth-graders read below national norms. Every year, more than half of the students shift to another school as their parents change tenements. Of those who remain at P.S. 80, half will drop out of high school...