Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEPAL Volunteers will be assigned to Development Districts which include several communities in a wide geographic area. They will assist development officers in training of village leaders, as demonstrations and improved communications between villages and district officials...
...home. By then, though, the Bannisters had grown deeply fond of Mark; they resisted all requests for his return. Last June the Painters tried to retrieve the boy at his school in Ames. After being rebuffed by school officials, they filed a writ of habeas corpus in the county district court, which ordered that Mark be sent back to his father; pending the Bannisters' appeal, Mark stayed in Ames...
Died. Albert Thomas, 67, Democratic Congressman from Texas' Eighth District (Houston) since 1937, a gentle, genial but nonetheless powerful legislator who, as head since 1949 of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Independent Agencies (NASA, AEC, etc.), earned a reputation among some agency chiefs as the budget-snipping leader of "the Thomas Obstacle Course" and among Houstonians as the provider of such plums as its $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center; of cancer; in Washington...
...contrast, Senator Robert Kennedy's political coattails looked a little threadbare after the defeat of Lehman, whom he had personally selected and endorsed, in a district where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-2. If the Democratic Senator and the Republican mayor are engaged in a long-range battle for political control of New York, Lindsay had clearly won the first skirmish...
...time, trouble and money involved in taking a case to court often turn a petitioner white with anger and blue with frustration. If the whole enterprise takes an unconscionable length of time, is there no recourse? Too often, there is not. But in a recent decision, U.S. District Court Judge Marvin E. Frankel ruled that there are times when delay can be clearly illegal. His decision was largely an eloquent lecture on the abuses of administrative power...