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...Senate last week blasted clear of its great reapportionment logjam. After six weeks of didactic debate, fulminating filibuster and mule-headed obstinacy on all sides, a quorum of weary Senators finally compromised, 44-38, on a "sense of Congress" resolution: federal courts are requested to grant a breathing spell to states reapportioning their legislative districts. In the soft est of language, the resolution asks that courts give the states at least one legislative session, plus an additional 30 days, to meet the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote requirements. But the "sense of Congress" really makes very little...
With civil rights on the way to enactment, the year-long legislative logjam began to break. Last week the Congress also: > Approved, by a 212-to-189 House vote, an Administration-backed $375 million urban-transit bill designed to aid cities in improving their municipal and suburban public-transport systems. Spread over three years, federal funds would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of transit-system renewal or expansion. >Shelved, by a voice vote of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Administration's longstanding medicare bill. Instead, the committee approved a measure that would boost Social...
...Budapest Hilton? De Gaulle's freewheeling maneuvers are essentially the result of the growing break in the 18-year logjam of the cold war. Washington and Moscow have been moving cautiously toward détente ever since the confrontation of Cuba (where De Gaulle promptly pledged allegiance to the U.S.), encouraging greater independence not only by France in the West but by the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are asserting an astonishing independence of Russia. Communist Hungary even boasts it will soon have a Budapest Hilton...
...said the College is giving "top priority" to easing the logjam of popular courses which meet M-W-F at 12. One solution, according to Ford, would be to impose quotas limiting the number of courses a department can schedule at a single hour. But he admitted this would not prevent conflicts between popular big name lecturers in different fields...
Harvard drama-types are suspicious of attempts to impose organization over their widely-scattered enterprises, and perhaps with justification. But whatever its charms, anarchy can be expensive, as the theatrical logjam last December proved. The community and the actors were both the poorer for the thoughtless scheduling that had seven plays running on the same nights...