Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such limitations could significantly cut down the number of legislative bodies affected by the court's new decision, but government experts estimated that 20,000 local units would still be involved. Some had already adjusted districting after the state-legislature decision, but many have not. The aftermath of Avery v. Midland County will probably be as dramatic-and chaotic-as was the aftermath of the initial one-man, one-vote decision, particularly since the court again chose not to specify how close to the equal-population ideal a districting plan must come to be acceptable...
...recalls Mark's mother. 'You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." After four years in Hawaii, the Spitz family moved to Sacramento, Calif., where Mark got his first competitive instruction at a local Y.M.C.A. By the time he was ten, the youngster held 17 national age-group swimming records, and when he was 14, his father took him aside. "We have to do something now-or nothing," said Papa Spitz. "We can 1 live here and you can forget about competitive swimming...
...Local newscasts devote more time to explaining a cold front in Canada than they do a war front in Viet Nam for the simple reason that a five-minute weather report wrapped around a commercial makes an attractive-and non-controversial-package for sponsors. Thus forecasts are padded with history ("108 years ago today the high was 67" ) and a flurry of arrows and isobars, maybes and howevers that enlighten no one but do serve as a hedge against any variation on the prediction short of a typhoon in Main Street...
Sonny Eliot is the first to concede that his show is an "act," and like most TV weathermen, he survives more by force of personality than prognostication. In fact, weathermen draw their information largely, if not exclusively, from the same sources; as a result' when one local forecaster advises wearing galoshes, they all do. Their radarscopes and satellite photographs are diverting if not confusing, but once they get around to giving the forecast, most weathermen are about 85% accurate...
...poor are crisis-oriented. They neglect preventive care, and often delay in seeking help when a serious problem arises. Too often the practitioners they select are the local subprofessional quacks who have infiltrated and won the confidence of the neighborhood because they are racially and socially no different than the poor. The middle class, white doctors and nurses are different: They don't live with the poor, they just make their living from them. Even when the care is free, the delicate problem of winning the acceptance of the community remains. Dr. Salber and her staff organized a propaganda program...