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Injury, while general, is real; redress is in order. This would seem a matter of special concern to the nation in view of recent Supreme Court rulings establishing the one-man, one-vote principle in apportioning legislatures, and in view of the extensive Congressional activity in the establishment of programs designed to improve the economic and social status of just those groups that appear to be substantially under-represented in our current population statistics...
...troubles. Despite his talk about economic reform, he has so far failed to rein in the Congo's debilitating inflation or spur industrial growth. What he has done, however, is to abolish all opposition political parties, disband Parliament, and have a new constitution written to legitimatize his one-man rule. His general explanation for his policies: the Congolese need discipline...
...purpose of the legislation was to set guidelines for state legislatures in drawing up congressional districts. Congress has always had the power to set guidelines, but until the Supreme Court one-man one-vote ruling, state legislatures enjoyed wide latitude in setting the district boundaries and apportioning population. It was a latitude more often abused than...
Last summer Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art staged a one-man exhibit of Nakian's work that illustrated how his style, as he says, "grew out of me as a tree grows." Born to Armenian immigrants on Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining...
...prime concern was financing industry, and nobody wielded more authority in that field than Abs. Quite literally, his word could make or break both upstarts and industrial giants. It was Abs's refusal to advance a $25 million loan that early this year ended five generations of one-man rule at the Krupp industrial complex. "Our influence is one of order, not of power," insists Abs, "as in solitaire one tries to make everything come out even." In his busy retirement, Abs will try to make things come out even at ailing Krupp: among other jobs, he was recently...