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Nimbus passes close to the earth's poles instead of following an equatorial orbit as Tiros did, thus covers a new 1,500-mile-wide swath of the earth ev ery 100 minutes. Nimbus can photograph every square mile of earth twice a day; special infra-red radiometers shoot "pictures" of the dark surfaces...
...object, therefore, was to delay implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration...
...demean our own character when we try to adopt this kind of proposal," cried Ev. "I believe we have demeaned ourselves enough, all over one fallen angel...
Finally, by a vote of 48 to 39, the Senate adopted a Dirksen motion to recommit the whole business to the Rules Committee. That body will now consider a substitute resolution, also offered by Ev, that would create an ethics commission to study conflict-of-interest problems in every branch of the Federal Government. It was hardly likely that any angels would get shot down soon...
...Step. This week Scranton planned a second assault on Illinois. No matter what Ev Dirksen might say about polls, Scranton figured that he had some new ammunition in a state wide survey calculated to create second thoughts among delegates. According to Scranton, Illinois Republican and independent voters preferred Scranton over Goldwater, 65% to 35%. Moreover, when the two men were matched against Lyndon Johnson, the same voters picked Johnson over Goldwater, 38% to 25% (37% were undecided), while they favored Scranton over Johnson, 33% to 24% (43% were undecided). This was one of the first times since Lyndon took office...