Word: reapportionments
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'Sixty-three seemed the year of lost hope for Virginia liberals. Gov. Harrison and Lt. Gov. Godwin had defeated a liberal ticket in 1961. The "Young Turks"--Boothe of Alexandria, Toy Savage of Norfolk and others--who had fought the Byrd Organization's segregation and tight budget policies during the...
Miller. Hughes, 43, ran ahead of Miller 3 to 1 in a public-opinion poll this fall. He wants to stay in Des Moines a while longer, however, to see through proposed amendments to the state constitution that would reapportion the legislature and reorganize the state government.
» Required California to reapportion its state senate along population lines by July 1. Otherwise, the job will be done by a three-judge federal panel.
> New Jersey Democrat Richard J. Hughes, planning to seek a second term next fall and facing a hostile, Republican-dominated legislature, tossed off a 31,700-word message in the Great Society vein, designed to make sure "that New Jersey does not become a grim preview of a polluted, congested...
Beyond the President's program for new legislation, there will be tussles over old familiar issues. The Senate is girding again for its usual argument over reducing the two-thirds vote required for cloture on a filibuster, and Republicans in both houses have prepared proposals that would cancel the...