Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtues. "McCarthy could not, if life depended on it, act out his compassion for the poor," says Sheed. "Politically, this subject demands a certain amount of Mammy-singing. You can denounce the war calmly, and the emotion will take care of itself. But when you come to poverty, you must perform. McCarthy spoke precisely as strongly about both subjects; yet he was felt to be passionate about Viet Nam, indifferent about race...
Since the Supreme Court began handing down its series of one-man, one-vote decisions, it has insisted that the ideal must be approached " as nearly as practicable."How near is that? At first some politicians and lawyers figured that a population difference of 15% or so between the largest and smallest districts in a state would prove satisfactory. Last week, however, the court made it clear that even far smaller variations may be unacceptable. So strict was the standard applied by he court that it may eventually necessitate reapportioning the districts of virtually every elected official, from Congressman...
Strait Path. The one-man, one-vote principle, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, requires that the state "make a good-faith effort to achieve precise mathematical equality" and "must justify each variance, no matter how small." Brennan added: "We can see no nonarbitrary way to pick a cutoff point" at which population variances become too small to matter...
...three dissenters described the new rule as unrealistically rigid. "Strait indeed is the path of the righteous legislator," wrote Justice John Harlan wryly. "Slide rule in hand, he must avoid all thought of county lines, local traditions, politics, history and economics, so as to achieve the magic formula: one man, one vote." Justice Abe Fortas tended to agree, but he nonetheless concurred in these cases because neither state had made a sufficient "good-faith effort...
...always decide as logic and reason tell him he should. Beyond human intuition, says Psychologist Ward Edwards, lies an individual's personal calculation of the odds in favor or against. This personal factor, which measures the individual's will to win rather than the mathematical probabilities, must be counted into the risk and the odds...