Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last September, dissidents nominated Jennings to run against Carey. For 14 years Jennings had been executive secretary of the I.U.E.'s New York-New Jersey District 3, which has about 40% of the union membership. He was reluctant to tangle openly with Carey; yet he had long disagreed with his boss's tactics. Said he: "Carey's concept of a trade union is simple: if you differ with him, you're a traitor...
...afternoon, and afternoon became evening, there was no Kasavubu-and in fact no voting. Throughout the city, not a single polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the voting sheets for all 43 contending parties. Frantic district poll officials swarmed to the headquarters of the electoral commission on the Avenue des Victimes de la Rébellion to find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads into waiting trucks as guards gesticulated wildly...
...ORLEANS. To untangle traffic jams in the city's business district, the Louisiana highway department has proposed an elevated six-lane highway that would skirt the historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...
...Although payments to tipsters hit an average of $687, reported Commerce Clearing House last week, hardly anyone knows the range of their rewards-except the IRS, of course, which taxes the payoffs. The tax code sets the "normal" payoff as 10% of whatever money informers bring in, but district tax collectors can pay whatever a tip is worth. Moreover, "no unauthorized person shall be advised of the identity of the informant"-a provision which protected the 3,672 informers whose information proved to be worthless last year. Wrongly accused tax evaders have only one recourse: if he succeeds in uncovering...
Died. Noah Morgan Mason, 82, longtime Republican Congressman from Illinois' 15th district (Aurora), a deep-dyed conservative who opened his 13-term career in 1936 by denouncing F.D.R.'s court-packing plan, retired in 1962 promising to remain "a missionary to the heathen of Capitol Hill," in between slashing out at the New-Deal, lend-lease, farm-price supports, the U.N., civil rights and foreign aid, while serving on the House committees on Un-American Activities, and Ways and Means; in Joliet...