Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meantime, and until the courts decide whether Powell's exclusion from the House is constitutional, Harlem remains a district without a Congressman. For months, Republican Theodore Kup-ferman, representing Manhattan's Silk Stocking district, has been fielding problems from Powell's old constituents. But now the petitions from Harlem have been reduced to a trickle (only one all summer), and Kupferman observes, "What they're doing is proving that they don't need a Congressman...
...morning that the toilet was clogged. She immediately informed the janitor, who told her that it was necessary to apply to the apartment house "block committee." A member of the committee instructed her to fill out a form and take it to the area repair center for her district. etting this far consumed most of one day. Early the next day, the housewife appeared at the repair center. There she had to wait in line for two hours before she reached the comrade who allocated plumbers for her district. He studied his calendar, looked up and said: "We can have...
...elections were held today, Ted Heath's Conservatives would win by a 100-seat landslide. The results of two by-elections supported that statement. In the university town of Cambridge, the Tories recaptured a swing seat from Labor with a massive majority. In the London working-class district of Walthamstow West, once the constituency of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the Tory candidate won in a narrow upset. It was the first time that Labor had lost there since...
...Remembered. The results can be seen in the reconstructed Old Town district and along Krakowskie Przed-miescie, a popular promenade. Nowhere perhaps is the correspondence between art and life more striking than in the New Town Market Square (see color opposite). There stands the lovely baroque Church of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled...
...owners look in on their customers. Police hunt homosexuals with ceiling cameras installed in men's rest rooms. Cops also bug hoods, while hoods bug cops. Some towns have experimented with closed-circuit TV cameras on the streets; using street lights, police can watch at night for crimes. District attorneys have been known to record lawyer-defendant conferences, and everyone believes that everyone's wiretapping everyone else in Washington, D.C. One Capitol telephone line, reports Westin, had eight taps on it and was so sapped of power that normal conversations were inaudible...