Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Witnesses before the committee argued that both the district and proportional approaches would perpetuate some of the worst abuses of the present system. Nonetheless, the direct method faces formidable obstacles. The heavy vote may crystalize opposition to the amendment among rural and traditional Congressmen in the House and Senate-and the amendment needs a two-thirds majority for passage in each body...
...sought to end payments to mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands if the women were "cohabiting" with other men. To Alabama authorities, the men were "substitute fathers." Only last month, the court invalidated the residency prerequisite for benefits that had been demanded by 40 states and the District of Columbia. In the fall, Albert will go before the Supreme Court to plead that a recipient has the right to an individual hearing before...
Young Barry had certainly been right, as it turned out, to enter a special election for Congress. Last week he handily beat Democrat John K. Van de Kamp, 64,675 to 48,933, in a runoff in California's 27th District to replace Republican Ed Reinecke, who took over as the state's Lieutenant Governor when Robert Finch moved to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The sprawling 27th now stretches from suburban Los Angeles northward to rural Kern County. Young Barry ran far ahead of his father's 1964 showing in the district...
...generational outlook. No. 1 Son echoes his father's conservatism and, on one issue at least, is even farther to the right. While Barry Sr. favors lowering the voting age to 18, his son opposes the change. That kind of talk goes down well in the 27th District. Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil...
...fact the Harvard cannot repeat as EIBL chanmpion, the team still has several bright prospects. With a total of five games remaining on the schedule. Harvard could finish the season at 15-7. That record is just one game off the peace that sent the Crimson to the NCAA District I playoffs last year. Since two of the spots in the tournament are non-league assignments, victories over Dartmouth and Yale in the coming week might clinch the Crimson one of those two spots...