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Different Tack. Nonetheless, Dirksen is determined to enact a constitutional amendment that would overrule at least part of the one-man, one-vote doctrine by permitting the states to select one house of their legislatures on a basis other than population. Twice, his efforts to push such amendments through the Senate were defeated by seven votes. Now the Illinois Senator is off on a different tack...
...Twin Cities, which previously had been outvoted by rural interests. Wisconsin's dairy-directed legislature, long a staunch defender of the more expensive spread, finally made the sale of oleomargarine legal. Colorado passed the nation's most advanced abortion bill, and North Carolina last week enacted a measure that is similar to Colorado's in most respects. Also last week, Oklahoma became the first state to legalize artificial insemination by a donor other than the woman's husband and to guarantee legitimacy to the resultant offspring. In Hawaii, where Oahu once had only two-fifths...
...Uniform Time Act, passed by Congress a year ago, that requires all states to follow statewide Daylight Time-unless the respective legislatures enact exempting laws. Last week as the hour struck to turn the clocks ahead one hour, the chaos was less, but compliance was far from perfect. Forty-five states are now keeping D.S.T.; still out of step are Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan...
This recommendation, in effect, placed the commission at odds with the President's privacy bill. Jawarski and his group had held firm. The commission technically avoided directly opposing the President's bill by recommending only that "Congress should enact legislation dealing specifically with wiretapping and bugging." The report nevertheless provides ammunition for opponents of the administration bill...
...constitutes adultery. Last month the Oklahoma house of representatives approved a bill (it has still to pass the senate) that would make that state the first in the U.S. to recognize children produced by artificial insemination as legitimate. Seven other states have tried and failed in the past to enact such basic legislation...