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Reapportionment. The chief reason for the census, as laid out in the U.S. Constitution, is to ensure equal representation in Congress. The earliest census fixed the ratio at one representative for each 33,000 people, gave the House 105 members. The ratio kept changing through the years, un til 1929 when Congress froze maximum House membership at 435 (raised tempo rarily to 437 with the admission of Alaska and Hawaii) and fixed representation merely by dividing the population by that number: in 1950, it was one member for 345,000 people...
...announcing flatly that "all women are whores"), the head of M-G-M clouted Von Stroheim right on his Teuton nose. At home, though, the studio slugger cut a different figure. Early one morning he fell on his knees in his daughter Edith's room and cried un controllably until she promised to let him take over the Hollywood Biltmore for the lavish wedding he wanted for her. "He grabbed her hands," says Crowther, "held them to his face, and started sobbing and weeping until her hands were soaked with tears...
...only thing more un-American than not electing a man because of his religion, I believe, is to elect him because of his religion...
...manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-Richard (Have Gun) Boone takes off his shooting irons and gets tricked up as a circus "Charlie" (clown). Naturally, un der the makeup, he is another Pagliaccio...