Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the 1960 census wrapped up, the House of Representatives faces the painful duty of reapportioning its 435 seats.* Sixteen states stand to lose 21 seats to more populous areas, and pressure grows for Congress to take the easy way out by enlarging the House. Sixteen House-expansion bills, written mostly by jeopardized members, have already been introduced. Support is building for the bill sponsored by Kentucky's Frank Chelf, a measure that would add 34 new seats, saving 17 of the threatened Congressmen...
Speaker Sam Rayburn has long opposed any additional seats, feeling that the House is big enough, would become cumbersome and unmanageable if it got any bigger. But with pressure from many an old friend who might lose a seat, Mister Sam is wavering. He asked Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the Democratic whip, to make a quiet investigation and some recommendations. Then Rayburn let it be known that for the time being he would take a neutralist position. He still has misgivings, believes that the Chelf bill might open the door to further growing pains. "First thing you know...
...such missiles as Minuteman (on trains) and Polaris (in submarines). At best, all the U.S. can hope to achieve is a situation of "mutual invulnerability." And under mutual invulnerability the threat of all-out nuclear war-the threat that lay behind the longstanding U.S. strategy of "massive retaliation"-will "lose its credibility and its strategic meaning-particularly against aggressions which are explicitly less than all out. The preposterous aspect of the U.S. military policy is that even in the face of first the missile gap and then the approaching mutual invulnerability, we continue to rely on the threat...
...third. The prospective prize: Odhams Press Ltd., which owns 82 magazines, 25 annuals, a racing daily and two newspapers-the Sunday People (circ. 5,467,872) and the Daily Herald, a Labor Party voice. Although the Daily Herald's circulation is 1,418,119 it manages to lose about $2,000,000 a year. Last month Fleet Street's Canadian-born Press Lord Roy Thomson, 66, proprietor of 80 papers in seven countries, made an offer to Odhams' board, headed by Sir Christopher Chancellor, longtime (1944-59) general manager of Reuters Ltd., the British press service. Thomson...
With victories over Cornell, Rutgers, Army, and Dartmouth the Tigers stand undefeated in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. They have a top freestyle distance man and a national champion diver. They will probably lose by approximately...