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...found your inclusion of Ronald Reagan among the possible running mates for President Nixon in 1972 interesting [Aug. 16]. Doesn't the Twelfth Amendment require the President and Vice President to be residents of different states...
...Twelfth Amendment says that the members of the Electoral College in each state must vote for one man-for President or Vice President-who is an inhabitant of another state. The amendment has never been put to a test, but it does not seem to be an absolute barrier; one of the candidates, for instance, could change his legal residence before the electors meet...
...someone he had already sparred with for 1,000 rounds or so was about as exciting as the late, late, late show. Ellis made menacing noises and Ali tried to work up his customary public fury over his opponent, but the end was inevitable. Ali won easily in the twelfth round. "There was no use hitting him any more," said the former champ. "He's a family man with children...
...Riles would pay the preschool bills with money now spent on the twelfth grade, upending "the current inverted pyramid shape of school finance, where the lower the grade, the less money per pupil is spent." The biggest gainers, he thinks, might be disadvantaged students -and the taxpayers. "Prevention is cheaper than remediation," he says. "A dollar spent on the very young goes farther than a dollar for the not-so-young who are in remedial classes or on welfare or, indeed, on the 'Wanted' bulletins of post office walls...
...city today has an estimated 20,000 addicts, most of them black, many of them concentrated along either Mack Avenue or Twelfth Street on opposite sides of the city. At one time, three loosely knit gangs regulated the distribution of Detroit's limited drug trade. But as the number of black users increased, along with the number of street pushers, organization began to break down. The gangs still control the flow of heroin into the city, but once it is cut, it is every man for himself...