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...Federal Court of Appeals' ruling last week that Massachusetts' congressional districts are malapportioned is an unusually strict, but justified, application of the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" edict. The population difference between the State's largest and smallest congressional districts is 102,626 people, an imbalance which many apportionment experts do not consider extreme. The Federal Court, however, noted that when the General Court re-apportioned the state in 1962 it rejected two other apportionment plans which would have kept the maximum difference of population beteen any two districts to 50,000 people. Last Wednesday's decision, with...
...army would be a loose assemblage of carping individualists, all obeying' only their own inner dictates. One would not expect such reasoning from Charles de Gaulle, supreme authority figure of modern French history. Yet the Old Soldier has now issued an edict that requires every soldier to reason why before he blindly follows orders that "constitute crimes and infractions against the state's security, the constitution or public order...
...enforce their demands, the rebels revealed they had taken three important prisoners: Royalist Army Commander General Ouane Rathikoun, the commander of the Savannakhet military region in southern Laos, and Prince Sayavong, brother of King Savang Vatthana. Not only that, announced the radio, but unless the terms of the edict were met within an hour, the planes would come back with more bombs...
...while it looked as if Boeing's medium-haul, three-jet 727, in service since 1964, might be grounded by Government edict. During a five-month period beginning in August 1965, there were four fatal 727 crashes, all of them during the final landing approach. But last week, reporting on one of the four disasters-an American Airlines 727 crash in Cincinnati that took 58 lives-the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the accident on pilot error and cleared the aircraft altogether. The 727, said the CAB, has "no design deficiencies or unsatisfactory operating characteristics...
Giving in, the government flashed a temporary red light to enforcement officers, ordering that the edict take effect only against a few disreputable houses that employed minors or peddled dope. It was small solace for the trade. Complained one prostitute last week: "Attendance has fallen off. Clients fear they may land in jail." A madam with initiative-and style-was busy sending out notes to erstwhile customers: "I have the pleasure of informing you that I expect you at my house on Tocornal Street after 6 p.m. Bring a friend...