Word: districts
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Coming from anybody but an Eagle Scout and an idealist of uncommon rectitude, that would be an insufferable statement. Evans first won office in 1956 when one of the two seats in a heavily Republican Seattle district fell vacant. In 1959 he married Spokane-born Nancy Bell, the blonde, hazel-eyed daughter of a mining engineer who wanted to name her Verna Equinoxia because she was born on the first day of spring. (He was dissuaded by his wife.) The Evanses have three sons: Danny Jr., 7; Mark, 4; and Bruce, 23 months...
...solution to the conflict in Viet Nam argue that it would be too fragile to be sustained, much less built up into an eventual national compromise. What would happen if U.S. and North Vietnamese units clashed in an area where local accommodations had been reached? How could village or district elections in contested areas be supervised? When would the U.S. know that it was safe or opportune to begin withdrawing troops, and how many to retain in South Viet Nam? It would be splendid, of course, to have clear-cut answers to such questions. But the war itself has been...
Congressman Thomas P. O'Neill, whose district includes Cambridge, is expected to announce this weekend he is endorsing Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn) for president, according to informed sources...
Such affluent school districts as Shaker Heights in Ohio, and garden City and Cold Springs Harbor in New York found themselves eligible for Title I funds, and after a little hesitation, applied for and received the money. Once the districts had the dollars, they discovered they could not find the economically disadvantaged children supposedly living in their districts and through a loophole in the wording of the law, began using the funds to finance programs for Educationally disadvantaged students. "You mean that if a kid's father is making $15,000 a year, but he is divorced...
...Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That's why," says a broker at Lehman Bros.' Wall Street area office, "I love to be invited to lunch uptown...