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...This year, some voter-advocacy groups are predicting extremely long lines at certain precincts in Virginia, Ohio and Florida - and the lawsuits have already begun. In Virginia, "the allocation of polling-place resources is plainly irrational, nonuniform and likely discriminatory," charges a complaint filed on Oct. 27 against the state by the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP. Virginia governor Tim Kaine disputes this charge and promises an orderly election, noting that the state has a short ballot this year, along with 4,700 more voting machines and 11,000 more poll workers than...
While I did not at the time and do not non-subscribe to the view that the ACSR is a puppet group. I believe that because of certain faults in the guidelines governing Committee members' selection and because of the nonuniform way in which these guidelines have been implemented, the Committee representativeness and integrity must be called into question...
...rest of New York State, according to Joseph Steim, a research assistant in the department of Geological Sciences and a seismologist at Harvard's Oakridge observatory at Harvard, Mass. "The entire region has been undergoing a general uplift for more than a hundred million years," Steim added, explaining that "nonuniform stresses within the region results in fracturing...
...also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...
...vivid hues. By contrast, TWA's decision to doll up stewardesses on transcontinental domestic flights in "foreign accent" uniforms has proved something of a flop. Having hired the Wells agency away from Braniff, TWA next month will instead start outfitting its girls in what it calls "modernistic nonuniform uniforms." These will consist of casual mufti ensembles, with accessories to suit the individual stewardess' taste...