Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2. The elec tion will be held under "Plan A," the first of four reapportionment plans passed last December by a lame-duck Republican legislature. The State Su preme court voided all four, noting specifically that Plan A violated a state constitutional provision against a lower house of more than 150 members. A three-judge federal court overturned that ruling on the grounds that some reapportionment action must be taken...
...Lame Reply. No answer. Williams continued: "Back home where I come from, a man's word and his honor are considered to be all that he has. If his word is no good, we consider that man untrustworthy in all matters. If the committee felt I had done something wrong or that I had deliberately withheld from the committee information which was in my possession, it was their responsibility to speak...
Finally, an answer. Chairman Jordan had arrived in the chamber, sat with hands folded in his lap while Williams spoke, then delivered a lame reply: "It would be highly out of order for me to engage in a discussion of the working draft until the committee has met and acted...
...against Communist-backed Salvador Allende, Frei promised voters a long list of desperately needed economic and social reforms. Partly because of his personal appeal and partly because of widespread distaste for the Marxist Allende, Frei rolled up the largest plurality in Chilean history. Yet in office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage of a single major bill. In the congressional campaign, Frei's party urged the voters to make a Parliament for Frei." At best the experts gave...
...mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with three U.S. companies to double copper production by 1970. Frei has suffered from a hostile lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats controlled only 33 of 192 seats. "Chile," he says, "cannot wait indefinitely." And this week he went into crucial congressional elections, hoping for a more cooperative legislature...