Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring solemnly that a family in his district had even received a CARE package from worried relatives in Europe. On Ed Sullivan's Sunday night television show a comic announced: "I joined the war on poverty-I threw a hand grenade at a beggar...
...next article on the Presiden't plan, Harris L. Hartz tries to resurrect the four-year term. He proposes that "Congressional districts should be doubled in size by joining adjacent districts in the same state. Each district should then have two representatives one elected with the President, one in a off-year election." Hartz answers a number of criticisms of his plan with a welter of detail and statistical data. Indeed, his plan seems almost convincing except for one point: could party machinery handle the switch to the new plan? But intra-party haggling over such a plan...
Carter's suit, which will be heard in district court within the next few weeks, has clearly had no effect on the Bureau's code of conduct for employees. As one of its spokesmen explained: "We have hundreds of young men and women coming to work for the FBI in Washington. We must be sure that their parents can be confident that they and their colleagues are living under exemplary standards...
...everyone's surprise, Sellers' motion was shot down by Judge Alfred Luongo of the Philadelphia U.S. District Court, which had jurisdiction be cause Sellers and Walsh live in different states. Judge Luongo readily agreed that every golfer "assumes the risk or is guilty of contributory negligence if he intentionally or carelessly walks ahead or stands within the orbit of the shot of a person playing behind...
When the case was first tried in a Los Angeles federal district court in 1964, G.M. won by arguing that, according to the terms of their franchises, dealers could not open "branches" without G.M.'s permission-and that, in effect, the discount operations constituted branches. Thus, G.M. reasoned, it was only enforcing a legal contract, not restraining trade...