Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Factor. Congress' sudden sympathy for reform reflects that growing public desire for a change. What shape a proposed amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
...resisting these appointments, as well as in opposing the Administration's effort to take postmasterships out of politics, Dirksen is in part mirroring Republican displeasure with the offhand manner in which the White House has been handling patronage-which is all-important to the politicians on the Hill. The pols are angry because in many cases they have not been consulted or even informed of the Administration's decisions. Still, Dirksen is far more vehement than his confreres...
What would take up the slack and yet provide the proper status? Economics Professor Robert Browne of Fairleigh Dickinson University had both a grievance and an ingenious thought. As he and other black militants see it, whitey has dominated vice in the U.S. for too long. Recommending that Negroes get their fair share of that action, he declared: "Racketeering, prostitution and the numbers, if they are to continue, must be put into the hands of the black community." How that might be accomplished without upsetting another militant minority, the Mafia, was left for a subsequent conference to discuss...
That man seemed almost certain to be former Premier Georges Pompidou, a stocky, graying bon vivant who possesses perhaps more solid credentials of intellect and experience?if not on the historic scale of a De Gaulle?to take over his country than any other Western political peers. The engineer of most of De Gaulle's last triumphs, the administrator of France's return to order after last spring's chaos, Pompidou was unceremoniously dismissed from office by De Gaulle in July. From the role of rejected dauphin he moved skillfully to become a visible alternative to De Gaulle's rule...
...town for the election took advantage of the sunny weather and left for his country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their off hours they gather in favorite Montparnasse bars and drink...