Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. STRATEGY. "The key is Dirksen," says Mansfield, "with Hick-enlooper and Aiken." Besides Dirksen, he was referring to Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper as a Midwesterner with influence over other rural conservatives, and Vermont's George Aiken as a leader of Northeastern moderates. Among them, these three could almost certainly swing enough Republican votes to put cloture across. Dirksen is in a tough spot. Though he was his old, congenial self last week, traipsing up to the press galleries and sitting crosslegged on a table to chat with newsmen, he is under heavy fire from civil rights groups...
...demonstration for Makarios underscored Greece's most pressing problem. With the whopping majority held in Parliament by his coalition Center Union Party, new Premier George Papandreou, 76, could normally expect to make good his pledge for tax cuts, pay raises to civil servants, free education for all and rural redevelopment. Papandreou's treasury still has a surplus, and the economy is growing at the rate of 71% a year. But the success of Papandreou's program depends on the settlement of the Cyprus problem at no disadvantage to Greece; until accord is reached, Papandreou is hobbled...
...representation will produce votes for the kind of measures most Congressmen from cities favor: the Administration's mass transit bill, an Urban Affairs Department, civil rights legislation, and welfare programs. Unlikely, that is unless the state legislature in question favors such programs. Malapportionment in most state legislatures today favors rural areas, and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the many cases challenging the situation...
...equal-population rule, state legislatures play a large part in deciding what kind of representatives an urban area will have. Until the composition of most state legislatures is changed--and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on their apportionment--Congressional representation from most states will retain some rural bias. Because the courts and legislatures move slowly, the Court's recent rulings will probably have little effect until after the 1970 census. By that time, most central cities as well as rural areas will have lost large numbers of people, and suburbs will make most of the gains...
Selling by catalogue, which long ago ceased being aimed mostly at rural America, today is the fastest-growing trend in retailing since the birth of the discount store. Catalogue sales have grown 60% in the last decade, rose 10% to a record $2.4 billion. Though the market is still dominated by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Spiegel and Aldens, more and more companies are entering the field. Six months ago giant J. C. Penney (1,667 chain stores) began selling by catalogue. Last week another big company made a strong bid to win a foothold in the market: Western Auto Supply...