Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REAPPORTIONMENT: Plunging into what Frankfurter warned was a "political thicket," the Court has tackled the anomaly of rural minorities' controlling legislative majorities in at least 40 states. To give every citizen's vote equal weight, the Court ruled last June that under the 14th Amendment, every house of every state legislature must be apportioned on the basis of districts "as nearly of equal population as is practicable." Can one house of a bicameral legislature be organized on a nonpopulation basis to reflect minority interests? No, says the Court, because such a house might veto majority interests. Even...
...paint and study in New York. He is convinced that the British painters will enjoy a long renaissance. Says he: "There'll be a lot of good people coming after us, and the older generation have started thinking again. For once, all the good artists are pulling their weight in England these days...
...take charge." That was enough to make any aspiring U.S. Davis Cupper shudder. Hopman runs his team like a Marine sergeant bossing the brig. He puts his players through punishing four-hour practice sessions, fills their spare-time hours with such joys as cross-country runs and weight lifting. With younger players, he dictates menus, bedtimes, social activities. "Don't forget," Hopman explains, "these boys are in their late teens. They need guidance...
...years, he said, some 35 billion people will be alive, with a combined weight equaling that of the earth. And in about 650 years, there will be one person for every square foot of the earth's land surface, or 25 million people per square mile, he said...
...most undergraduates, who have little cause to keep books for more than a month, the rule is no great inconvenience. The full weight of the regulation falls on thesis-writing seniors. It requires a day to collect twenty or thirty books from the various corners of Widener, check them out, and carry them back to one's House. It requires another day and a half to return them, wait for them to be re-shelved, hunt them down and check them out again. And although it is understandable that in general the Library should wish to have books return...