Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appropriations are still pending. The House wants to use the financing resolution as a lever to force the White House to make budget cuts of up to $8 billion while the Senate refuses to cooperate in the ploy. While the conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since Oct. : struggled to meet payrolls and maintain normal operations. The first casualties were five OEO community-action programs in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi that were forced to close down last week. Thirty others...
...Shirley Black's middle name were Smith," said one of her foes in next week's California llth Congressional District primary, "she would not be running for Congress." But it isn't, and she is, and Shirley Temple Black is in the midst of an increasingly sulfurous campaign that is giving San Mateo County's half-million people a colorful spectrum of choice...
...district, represented for 15 years by the late J. Arthur Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely by well-to-do, conservative-leaning commuters to San Francisco, nearby Stanford University exerts a liberalizing influence, and subdivisions have attracted a big influx of blue-collar workers...
...past, the Democrats have given up the district without much fight; this time they outnumber registered Republicans 118,000 to 98,000, and while San Mateo backed Goldwater against L.B.J. and Ronald Reagan against Pat Brown, it also voted in the Republican primaries for moderate George Christopher v. Reagan and Rockefeller v. Goldwater. Mrs. Black faces nine primary opponents, plus write-ins. The serious candidates...
Like so many other Southern Liberals, he entered the limelight in 1948, campaigning for Henry Wallace. "I was a radical grass roots organizer even then," he says. He ran for elector of the Progressive Party in district five and spent 10,000 dollars on the campaign, winning a total of 500 votes. "And those I got by trading on my grandfather's name, also a Smith," he chuckles. "I told Wallace we could have bought more votes with that money...