Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Help than Hurt. Politically, Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...
...agreement, which could be altered a year hence if any of its partners has second thoughts, represents a sound and simultaneous tripartite decision in a NATO split by Charles de Gaulle. Most important, it may prompt Moscow to transfer some of its 26 divisions in Eastern Europe to a more sensitive perimeter, Russia's 4,100-mile frontier with China...
...Mass Transfer. It is these powers that started the chain of trouble in which King Constantine found himself enmeshed last week. It began with the downfall of the conservative government of Constantine Karamanlis, who brought considerable stability to Greece for eight years even though his foes claimed that his elections were shams. A sweeping electoral victory in 1964 brought to power George Papandreou, the velvet-tongued leftist who has carved his image in Greek political life for a half century...
...Center Union Party won an unprecedented 53% of the vote in national elections and carried 171 seats in the 300-seat Greek Parliament. Greece seemed about to enter another period of stable government under the new Premier. But no sooner had he taken over than Papandreou started a mass transfer of pro-palace military officers to the hinterlands, shuffling off no fewer than 2,350 officers to outlying districts away from the army nerve centers in the cities. Since the King must turn to the army when in trouble, Constantine did not like to see his loyal officers so dispersed...
...Johnson may win time with these concessions, fighting a holding action against critics until he has resources and political support to expand the program. But he is abandoning the strategy that he hailed so confidently in 1964, and returning to the uncoordinated and ineffective administration of welfare and income transfer programs that the nation has haphazardly accumulated over the past thirty years...