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...unlikely that altered 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...
...charges arose from an argument between Field and a Polish-German border guard on Jan. 21, when the guard questioned the validity of the American's transit visa. According to court testimony, the visa was filled out incorrectly in Moscow by Polish embassy officials...
...friend last week: "Chemistry is all right, but what really counts is dung." Then it has to get to the fields, mostly in areas served by crude dirt roads that turn to quagmires in winter. More than 25% of Khrushchev's precious fertilizer is usually wasted in transit. Shipped in boxcars, the coarse Russian mixture sometimes cakes so hard that it has to be broken loose with picks. Piled outside the station, it often lies forgotten through the winter, serving small boys as a toboggan slope. When a traveler once congratulated a rural stationmaster on the bumper wheat crop...
...charges arose from an argument Jan. 21 between Field and Lt. Jan Knap, a border guard, when Field and his wife were traveling to Parts from Moscow, where he had been studying Russian literature. The guard questioned the validity of Field's transit visa, which according to court testimony had been filled out incorrectly by Polish embassy officials in Moscow...
Using Chicago's "trail-blazing" efforts as examples, Daley explained that the scope of urban renewal is widening to include consideration of transit systems, sanitation problems, and "improved educational, health and recreational facilities of all kinds." He also told of a change in focus of renewal from one of "slum clearance" to one of "rehabilitation...