Word: historicization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a historic decision of 1964 (Reyn olds v. Sims), the Supreme Court held that all state legislators must be elected from districts of roughly equal population - thus ensuring equal representation for all voters. But what about the application of the one-man, one-vote rule to local governmental units...
Spring sunshine splashed through the glazed west windows of the House of Commons last week as Prime Minister Harold Wilson concluded his speech to a packed Parliament. "This " is a historic decision," he intoned, "which could well determine the future of Britain, of Europe and indeed of the world, for...
Happy Reversal. In 1957, in another balancing problem-inequities in voting-Johnson's hewing to the law earned him his only civil rights reversal by the Supreme Court. In Tuskegee, where Negroes outnumber whites 4 to 1, the state legislature had gerrymandered the city in a 28-sided figure...
To bring back some of those moments on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Toscanini's birth, Music Critic B. H. Haggin put together a book of tape-recorded reminiscences by musicians who worked with him during the last three decades of his career. Called The Toscanini Musicians...
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the historic merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central last year, only to see it tangled in legal challenges. Last week-a year later to the day-the ICC bestowed its blessing on a rail merger that it hopes will be consummated...