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...them has three times denied the country's highest office to the candidate receiving the greatest number of popular votes. Twice it has resulted in, and several times-most recently in 1968-it has threatened the chaos of a disputed election's being thrown to Con gress for resolution. Last year, in the wake of that recent near-fiasco, a pro posed constitutional amendment for direct election of the President was passed by the House of Representatives. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee added its approval and sent the amendment to the floor for a debate that...
...state to be carved out of one al ready in existence requires approval of both the old state legislature and the U.S. Con gress. New states have been created from the territory of older states before. For example, in 1792, Kentucky and was West formed from Virginia - part also of from part Virginia of Virginia - in 1863. Mailer proposes that the first step, following his election, should be a city-wide referendum on the question of statehood for the city...
...really made some solid pro- gress towards solving this [housing] problem, although we have no solid commitments yet," Connelley said...
...Wisconsin, the wise political bettor keeps his wallet shut. It is the state that produced both the La-Follettes and Joe McCarthy, where the traditionally Republican electorate sends liberal Democrats to Con gress, where the Progressive movement is still a living memory, and where George Wallace captured one-third of the Democratic presidential-primary vote...
...able to elbow her out of the prime ministry after the elections. But other Indians are less sanguine. Most forecasts predict that the Congress Party will lose control of three or four states to right-wing alliances and perhaps the state of Kerala to the Communists. The Con gress Party is also expected to lose 80 or so of the 374 seats that it now ho'ds in the 521-member lower house of Parliament. It would still be India's largest party by far, but no longer quite so all-powerful...