Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressman Powell [Dec. 30-Jan. 6] has committed and is continuing to commit a crime, not just against the people of his district, some of whom do not seem to mind, but against the people of the entire U.S. He has violated and is violating the honor of the Congress, and he must be removed...
Included were highly creative proposals to make New York City a state park district to facilitate outdoor recreation development, set up a program creating a county-agent-style welfare service to help deprived or undereducated city dwellers, increase middle-income housing construction, and float a $2 billion bond issue to improve New York's transportation systems-both transstate highways and the critical mass transit network in traffic-clogged New York City. Minnesota's Le Vander proposed a Metropolitan Service Council that would amalgamate the management of problems including everything from city sewage disposal to mass transit to parkland...
...newspapers and radio stations. In Peking itself, Correspondent Oancia* reported that one night last week gunfire chattered for more than five minutes and that the next morning the inevitable posters appeared, some of them reporting that factory workers had made trouble in the capital's western district. Across China, the Red Guards have met with increasingly stiff resistance in their drive to spread Mao's revolutionary fervor. "One learns how to make a revolution by making it," Mao has said, "just as one learns to swim by swimming." For the Red Guards, the swimming seems more and more...
...lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only would Holland have thus kept the case-a situation both sides applauded-but, as Holland saw it, the smaller city (pop. 140,000) was "far enough away not to come under the influence of the Dallas newspapers and TV stations." Moreover, he argued, in the first Dallas...
Actually, in Powell's case, there is a good chance that the courts will do the job of imposing punishment. New York District Attorney Frank Hogen is presently investigating Powell's case and may take action that would lead to Powell's extradition and arrest...