Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, residents of the nation's capital have endured taxation without representation, living in a city managed like a colony of the Federal Government. Though in 1961 Washingtonians were granted the right to vote in presidential elections, Southerners dominating the House District Committee have persistently bottled up bills to give the city a government of its own. The reason: Washington, which has always had a sizable Negro population, is now one of two major...
...President's bill was an artful compromise that was considerably less liberal than the Administration's 1965 proposal to give the district full home rule. The current reorganization plan will provide at least the structure of conventional city government. It scraps the triumvirate of presidentially appointed commissioners who, no matter what their abilities, have always given Washington an unresponsive, cumbersome rule. In their place, the city will soon have a single chief executive, an assistant, and a nine-member city council. All will still be appointed by the President, and Congress will continue to appropriate the funds...
...come the militants-mostly men with minuscule followings and even less in the way of concrete accomplishment for their race-to confront the nation's Negroes with a choice. "They can try to solve their problems," says Philadelphia's U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, a Negro, "by supporting people who have programmatic effectiveness, like Whitney Young. Or they can place their faith in others and have another century of increasing chaos...
CRIME With his china-blue eyes, wavy white hair and deferential manner, William Dale Archerd, 55, is the very antithesis of a Bluebeard. If the Los Angeles County district attorney's office is right however, the sometime hearing-aid salesman's penchant for marriage was matched only by his preference for murder. Last week he was in jail facing charges that he killed his nephew and two of his seven wives; the investigation also implicated him in the deaths of a third wife and two male friends. The suspected weapon: insulin.* The list of Archerd's wives...
Pets & Poisons. For all their misdeeds, rats are not really to blame. It is man who is at fault. "If we could only get people to keep the lids tight on metal garbage containers," says Clarence W. Travis of the District of Colum bia's Health Department, "we could wipe out the rats in six months. We put poison down in the alleys and distribute free poison to people in blighted areas, but they leave so much juicy, greasy garbage around that the rats pay no attention to the poison...