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Witnesses before the committee argued that both the district and proportional approaches would perpetuate some of the worst abuses of the present system. Nonetheless, the direct method faces formidable obstacles. The heavy vote may crystalize opposition to the amendment among rural and traditional Congressmen in the House and Senate-and the amendment needs a two-thirds majority for passage in each body...
...amendment would also need the approval of 38 state legislatures, and it is impossible to predict how they would react. Generally, there has been resistance within smaller states to major electoral change. By abandoning the present method of giving a candidate all of a state's votes, no matter how small his popular plurality, reformers also reduce the bargaining power and importance of state party organizations. The Senate, traditionally more sensitive to states' rights than the House, is likely to provide a tougher battleground than the lower chamber...
...LIFE editors for a meeting to discuss the information uncovered by the magazine, Fortas wrote: "Since there has been no impropriety, or anything approaching it, in my conduct, no purpose would be served by any such meeting." Fortas acknowledged visiting the Wolfson farm and said that he "was present at a meeting of the Wolfson Family Foundation," but added: "I did not, of course, participate in any of Mr. Wolfson's business or legal affairs during that visit, nor have I done so at any time since I retired from law practice...
...even his friends have any clear idea how Chichester-Clark intends to govern. His one known political formulation is that he supports the "one man, one vote" demand of the Catholic opposition-but "not at the present time...
...Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented." Now that he is back in Cambridge after three years as Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Wood says: "It was a sobering but not a corrupting experience. The alternative in a big, complex society is to let the programs and policies...