Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only pro-Powell vote was cast by the ranking Republican committee member, Ohio's William Ayres, a Powell pal whose Akron district has a heavily Negro vote. Ayres, who may some day succeed Powell, was worried that the chairmanship itself would be weakened by clipping Powell's wings. But the rules changes adopted last week should strengthen the committee's hand by eliminating the wanton delays that have often kept important legislation in the pigeonhole...
...thereby earning enough seniority on the Appropriations Committee to become the House's undisputed Prince of Pork. Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel. Four years ago, when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse voted against a $10 million aquarium for the District of Columbia-a pet Kirwan project-Mike simply lopped four Oregon projects out of his pork bill. Morse eventually backed down. "Mike's Fish Tank" will be built, and Oregon got back its appropriations...
Only months ago, Griffin, 42, was hardly known outside his rural, upstate (405,000) congressional district. During his five terms in the House, his name has appeared on only one major law, the embattled Landrum-Griffin Act, which sternly regulates the intra-union powers of labor leaders. That is scarcely a boost to any statewide campaigner in the labor-powerful state of Michigan. Last May, when George Romney appointed Griffin to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Democrat Pat McNamara, the Governor pointedly refrained from any enthusiastic commitment to campaign for his fellow Republican this fall...
...solved, the site might simply become a beautiful -- but hardly used -- memorial once the inevitable flood of tourists ebbed. With Harvard's new building, this distant prospect now seems unrealistic. (Another answer, advanced early and supported with great zeal by Mrs. Kennedy, was to create a lively, variegated commercial district of small shops, restaurants, and book stores that would attract and hold the local population of students, intellectuals and young professionals; one will have to wait for I.M. Pei's final masterplan to see how much this idea has survived...
Although the plant will take two years for completion, more immediate anti-pollution aid should arrive in the coming months when Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant is finished. Frederick Gow, of the Metropolitan District Commission's Construction Division, said yesterday that Charles water would be noticeably cleaner in the next four to five months as a result of the Deer Island plant. The Construction Division is in charge of both projects...