Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, had little effect on the outcome. In the end, it was the well-oiled Democratic machine in Providence that saved Tiernan by delivering him a 6,700-vote plurality in the city wards within the district. Even so, in Democratic Rhode Island, it was clear that the nationwide Republican resurgence of last November was as potent as ever...
However, federal district courts will now be under a mandate to apply the same ruling to all school cases throughout the Fifth Circuit's territory: Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Georgia...
Broadway Producer Alexander Cohen, 46, loves a good bash. Once he staged a carnival in the heart of the theater district and invited half of the Eastern seaboard. "I figure," he says, "why take your wife to dinner when you can just as easily have 40 guests...
...happened quite accidentally. Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the world's foremost genetic researchers, was experimenting with an amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
...leftover Alfons Mucha. From coast to coast, be-ins, folk-rock festivals, art galleries and department-store sales are now advertised in posters and layouts done in a style that is beginning to be called Nouveau Frisco. Unmistakably a vapor from the seething psychedelic dreamland of The Haight-Ashbury district (TIME, March 17), Nouveau Frisco currently has as its foremost practitioner Robert Wesley Wilson...