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...First he had to deal with the distribution of federally held territory in Alaska. Morton decided to set aside 277 million acres-two-thirds of the state. Of that, 125 million acres will be a reserve from which the Federal Government will later select 80 million acres for parks, forests and wildlife refuges. The remaining 152 million acres will be available for claims by the state and by native groups. The move was praised by conservationists, but it set off a roar of disapproval in Alaska, where Governor William A. Egan promptly announced that the state would go to court...
...most effective of the 18 new guidelines has to do with the selection of delegates at the local level in states that do not hold primaries. It stipulates that at least 75% of them be elected in open caucuses at the precinct, congressional district or other regional level below that of a statewide convention. Thus instead of permitting a few state party leaders to meet secretly to select most delegates, party officials must schedule and advertise the regional meetings and permit any registered Democrat to participate. While state procedures vary, some delegates in each will still be chosen at state...
FAVORITE SONS. The ability of a state leader to run as a favorite son in order to gain bargaining power at the convention has been largely blocked. The grass-roots party voters prefer to select delegates who are committed to a genuine candidate. Without the binding effect of the unit rule, a favorite son can no longer be certain that he will not be embarrassed by defections. Moreover, the rules now require that to be placed in nomination in Miami, a candidate must have the support of 50 delegates-no more than 20 of these from any single state. Thus...
...currently working on a pushbutton adaptation of Rubber Duckie. Phone musicians have learned not to begin pushing out a tune as soon as they lift the receiver. If the first number they punch is 0, for example, they will automatically get the operator. Even worse, the tune they select might well complete an expensive call to London or Paris. Experienced players usually place a local call to a friend and tap out new melodies to him only after the connection has been made. Otherwise, the explosive spread of the fad seems to be limited only by two factors...
Equally Bad. "I have sometimes thought," Mrs. Thatcher explains, "that some extreme advocates of equality would be happy even if all the children were in bad schools so long as they were all equally bad. I believe there is still a place for select schools of excellence." Mrs. Thatcher herself is the wife of a wealthy oilman, so she is among the 7% of British parents who can afford to send their children to expensive private schools (her 18-year-old twins went to Harrow and St. Paul's). "No one would demand that everyone live in the same...