Word: district
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Though Harvard failed to win the NCAA's, the team compiled an outstanding 19-9 record. Every player had a fine season, especially Peters. He garnered EIBL and NCAA district All-Star honors, as well as an election to the national All-American team. The last Harvard player to earn that distinction was also a pitcher, Paul DelRossi in 1964. Like Peters, DelRossi turned professional. He signed with the Yankees, but he never made it. It should be different with Peters...
After Kennedy rescues the sixteenth child from some catastrophe along the campaign route, the trivia and little human interest stories which made such interesting copy for the newspapers last spring become pretty boring. "On the final Sunday, Kennedy spent several hours back in the District of Columbia, which also was to vote the next Tuesday in a direct Kennedy-Humphrey test. The triumphal hour was saddened when a lead car struck the dog of a twelve-year-old girl. As the child stood numbly next to her pet at the sidewalk curb, Kennedy jumped from his car, stroked the animal...
DECLARING that "responsibility begins at home," Richard Nixon last week announced a long-overdue series of measures to curb the rapidly growing crime rate in the District of Columbia. In effect, the President's plans are a pilot program for his Administration's promised attack on the nationwide crisis of violence in the streets...
Drastic Reorganization. Nixon's anticrime package, culled from previous studies, drew attention to vital but neglected court and rehabilitation procedures. It called for drastic reorganization of the District of Columbia judicial system by providing a single municipal court to handle all normal litigation and criminal prosecution. This would help eliminate lengthy delays in felony cases that have hitherto been tried in federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon...
...surprise, Southern congressmen were the first to squawk when Finch first announced the cut-off. Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-Miss.), long-time leader of the Congressional segregation troops, brought up his old proposal to deny the government its fund-cutting power. But Whitten, whose district includes two of the condemned school systems, was not as important a foe as Sen. Strom Thurmond...