Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think this country is going to collapse," wailed a Michigan dairy farmer. If House Minority Leader Gerald Ford were not an optimist-and an ambitious Republican to boot-he might have thought so too, after four days of listening to dysphoric constituents in Michigan's Fifth District. "Never in my 19 years in Congress," said Jerry Ford at the end of a pulse-taking tour last week, "have I seen people so disturbed...
Ford can afford such candor, of course, since he has the solid support of a heavily Republican district that has sent him to the House in ten consecutive elections. Moreover, last week's soundings back home supported his own nerve-end feeling, and that of many other G.O.P. leaders, that the Republicans have a fighting chance of recapturing the White House next year-and of winning enough seats in the House to elevate Jerry Ford from minority leader to speaker...
...bend supposedly unbendable bureaucratic rules to get new low-income housing built, and to bring a sense of esthetics to that ugly duckling of American architecture. His wife Bennetta, now head of the Women's Job Corps, was formerly principal of Cardozo High School in one of the district's worst poverty areas...
Wait Ten Years. Only recently has Chinese pride permitted a lowering of the all but impenetrable veil that shrouded their condition from the outside world. California's Labor Commission and the San Francisco Central Labor Council have heard depressing testimony from Chinatown residents about working conditions in the district. Last week, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,* labor opened a campaign of pickets, sanctions and the threat of boycott against eight Chinatown sewing shops and a contracting firm. Although the goal is not immediate unionization, the 25,000-member culinary workers union is waiting in the wings...
...balloting. Some 100,000 people were due to be working at the 8,808 polling stations, and more than 460 million ballots have been printed for the eleven presidential tickets and 48 ten-man Senate lists. Votes were to be counted on the spot, the results radioed first to district, then province headquarters and finally to Saigon. A committee of the Constituent Assembly, which framed the constitution, was charged with watching for irregularities...