Word: extended
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Congress must decide whether to extend it anew...
Officials of Greene County say it is important to extend the Voting Rights Act so that other areas can duplicate these gains. Explains Assessor Kennard: "We came through it all. But there's Pickens County to the north with a majority of black residents but no black elected officials, and Hale County, which has just begun with black membership on the county commission." Judge Branch adds that failure to renew the act could lead to backsliding. Says he: "It would turn back the clock on a lot of the progress...
...Rights Act. The key provisions of this 1965 statute, which bars the use of literacy tests and other schemes that once blocked racial minorities from registering and voting, do not expire until 1982. Nonetheless, both supporters and opponents are already preparing for battle on whether the law should be extended. Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is leading the opposition. He is counting on White House support, but Reagan has not yet decided what stand, if any, to take on the renewal of the law. The legislative fight promises to be a bruising one, since blacks, Hispanics and their supporters...
...story began, oddly enough, more than a century ago. In 1876 residents voted to secede from the surrounding territory, now St. Louis County, because they did not want to pay to increase services. In the ensuing century, St. Louis was one of the few major cities that did not extend its boundaries. But by the 1950s, the automobile, cheap gas, fast highways and Government-backed mortgages had helped the county attract large numbers of city dwellers. The city made a bid to rejoin the county, but county residents rejected it. Back then the city had twice as many people...
...Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Though they are often polonaises or czardas, they are not folk dances but theatrical steps that must be performed with panache. It is a European style that Americans must learn. Explains Baryshnikov: "Classical dancing means moving through the rules and trying to extend them a little. In character dancing you don't stop until someone says, 'That's bad taste.' It's show...