Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taxes and Milk. Intellectual and seemingly inexhaustible, Obey, 30, healed party wounds that have festered since the Chicago convention, and got popular Senator Gaylord Nelson to stump for him in eleven of the district's 15 counties. He had two important factors going for him. One was that reapportionment shifts had cut into Republican strength-a fact that went all but unnoticed last year because Laird had amassed 64.5% of the vote. Another was Republican Governor Warren Knowles' proposal to balance a $25 million budget deficit by raising taxes, a move endorsed by Chilsen. The day before...
...Guests. China's masters were secretive about the congress. They even refused to disclose its exact location (it was probably held in Peking's Chungnanhai district, an enclave reserved for high officials). In contrast to the 1958 congress, there were no foreign guests who might later tell outsiders about what happened...
...draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...Whitfield in bed one night in 1962. He leaped up and began scribbling down his idea; then he called on his friend Tanner. After putting up $200 each, they established headquarters in one room of a small hotel owned by Tanner's family in Golders Green, a polyglot district of Northwest London. They were in business within two weeks. Today, at 33, they are multimillionaires...
...arrested students were taken in police paddy wagons and buses directly to district courts in Cambridge...