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...decision of which Warren was most proud was Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which extended the one-man, one-vote principle. His majority opinion on Reynolds, which forced nearly every state to redraw its electoral boundaries, showed Warren at his most eloquent: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests . . . A nation once primarily rural in character becomes predominantly urban. But the basic principle of representative government remains, and must remain, unchanged-the weight of a citizen's vote cannot be made to depend on where he lives...
...native of Alabama, a student at Harvard and Cornell, a steelworker and a merchant seaman as well as a professor of sociology, Beecher, 70, seems less a poet than a one-man recorder of American experience...
...fact was that Dadd, far from becoming one of those psychotic artists whose scribbles are only, or mainly, of interest to analysts, painted many of his best works in the asylum. He labored in a solitude, a vacuum of response, which might have crushed another artist. But it may be that Dadd's enforced seclusion helped sharpen the obsessive quality of his inner vision. Behind bars, time and detail never end. The evidence is up in London's Tate Gallery this summer through August: poor Dadd's first one-man show, more than 200 oils, watercolors...
Married. William Fisk Harrah, 62, Nevada's second-ranking casino mogul, after Howard Hughes; and Verna Frank, 29, lately a Reno real estate agent; in Middle Fork Lodge, Idaho. A one-man advertisement for another of Nevada's major industries, Harrah has been divorced five times, Frank once...
...both succeeded and failed. He certainly brought about a change in inner attitudes, so that the comic material for which he was scorned and prosecuted meets with relatively easy acceptance today. Outwardly, little has changed. The substance of the first two-thirds of this one-man show-a toilet-training routine, assorted scatology, corrosively Jewish anti-Semitic byplay-could no more find its way into print in most publications now than when Bruce first delivered it in the '50s and '60s. Most supper-club managers would still label it as "sick...