Word: governed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed amendment provides several sensible rules to govern redistricting laws. It seeks to make all Congressional districts compact in territory, a principle which the legislature has repeatedly violated. And each district would contain almost exactly the same number of inhabitants, a needed change from the present system, where districts vary by as much as 100,000 people. Perhaps most important, no city or town, except Boston, could be divided between districts; legislative majorities could no longer win two districts by skillful splitting of enemy territory for every one lost...
...Galerie Alex Gazelles last month yielded to word-of-mouth raves last week and hustled over to smart Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré to join the crowds. Reported Le Figaro's Art Critic André Warnod: "It is amazing to see the prescience which seems to govern all these pictures, still lifes as well as landscapes." Said Les Nouvelles Litteraires: ". . . Prodigious. [The] designs show authority and the palette is astonishingly rich." Said the weekly Carrefour: "Our theorists will find it difficult to explain this phenomenon." The phenomenon was Artist Thierry Vaubourgoin, a bright-eyed, straw-haired youngster...
Despite seven and a half energetic months in office, former French Premier Mendes-France failed in his most significant objective--the creation of an effective parliamentary majority with which to govern France. Without that majority, any hopes for a revitalization of the long-stagnant French economy are bound to remain illusory. But far from spelling final defeat for Mendes-France's reform plans, his overthrow should offer a new and greater opportunity, if he acts wisely in his coming period of opposition...
...away with anarchy." said Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...
...Ecuador," says President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, "is a very difficult country to govern." He should know; he is currently involved in his third try at it. The big difficulty in both of his previous terms was the armed forces. Velasco twice tangled with top commanders, who accused him of unconstitutional conduct, and twice got chucked out of his job. Last week it was Velasco v. the military again...