Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's population. On a given day, the Maritime College's 12,000-ton Empire State IV, a refitted troop transport, churns out toward the open sea; a lab class in horticulture at Cobleskill crossbreeds African violets. Future fashion designers cut patterns in Manhattan's garment district at the Fashion Institute of Technology, while future policemen seek an edge over criminals by studying at a criminology lab on Long Island...
...innovation-minded Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (see PEOPLE) feels much the same way; up to 3% of the value of every parish construction project must be paid to Sheen's office in the form of a levy, which is then channeled to the poor in the district...
...Granted that the statistics result partly from more efficient police detection and more careful reporting of crimes, there is no doubt the U.S. rate is climbing or that the President puts a high priority on doing something about it, particularly in Washington. Last week, the President signed a tough District of Columbia anticrime bill, which is only some what softer than a measure he vetoed last year on constitutional grounds. At that, this year's bill will doubtless be picked over meticulously in the courts. Among other things, the bill gives Washington a stiff antiriot code. While Johnson praised...
...allocated according to the percentage of the national vote won by each of the parties. Kiesinger wants to change to the Anglo-American system, in which a voter in a constituency casts his ballot for one candidate and the candidate who gets the most votes wins and represents that district. After all, the great bulk of the German people, including the trade unions and press, want nothing to do with anything resembling a new Führer. On a straight man-to-man voting system, the National Democrats in all likelihood would not win a plurality in a single constituency...
...Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 18, daughter of Ike's only son, retired Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and Wife Barbara. The scene was the 13th Annual International Debutante Ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, graced by 62 young ladies from 16 countries and 17 states and the District of Columbia. As usual, second-generation Republicans seemed to have a lock on the proceedings. Barbara Anne was escorted by her brother David's Amherst roommate, Don Stolper, and David himself was there with Fiancée Julie Nixon, who had been last year's Queen...