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...Justice Felix Frankfurter warned his Supreme Court colleagues against meddling with the apportion ment of political voting districts...
...ordered the special election under Plan A, with the provision that the new legislature draft another apportion ment plan acceptable under the state constitution. Plan A has been violently denounced by Democrats as favorable to Republicans, who lost control of the legislature last year for the first time in 30 years...
Such sharp. variations from city to city have become the national pattern in housing. The $26 billion industry which has been in an overall slump since mid-53, is undergoing what economists call "a rolling geographical readjust ment" - with major dips in some areas erasing gains in others. So far this year, housing starts across the U.S. are down 8% from a year ago despite gains in March and April. But in the West, where a quarter of the nation's new housing is normally concentrated, the decline is much sharper because of earlier overbuilding, cutbacks in defense industries...
...will recover this year to something close to the 1964 level of 1,584,000 units. many other experts lean toward the view of James C. Downs Jr., chair man of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp.: "The market is still oversupplied, and I foresee no dramatic improve ment." One encouraging sign: April con tracts for residential construction, a ba rometer of work to come hit a record $2.1 billin, up to 7? from a year...
...wearing schedule, back to the demands of days filled with life-and-death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...