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...Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that will alter the face of American political life. Breaking with its own precedent, the Court ruled 6 to 2 that Federal courts must consider legal complaints of city voters who are under-represented in the legislatures of most of the fifty states. Although the decision directly concerns a suit on the part of metropolitan voters in Tennessee, its implications extend to every state. Federal courts now have the duty to rule on the constitutionality of state legislative apportionments, and the apportionments themselves are subject to the clause of the 14th Amendment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tennessee Decision | 3/28/1962 | See Source »

...This physician," according to DiMascio, "should be available on call and in the building in which the experiments are being carried out, since it has been shown that the drug's actions may alter both the physical and mental processes of an individual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Plans No Investigation of Drug | 3/22/1962 | See Source »

...Honors tutorials, would be as unsuccessful as the regular non-Honors tutorial programs which several Departments have offered in the past. But Gill's response to the problem of the non-Honors concentrator was to suggest changing the Honors program to its present, open form, rather than to alter the seminars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seminar Role Shifting Now, Monro States | 3/8/1962 | See Source »

...very hard to change things." In Washington, Chayes explained, "It requires very delicate maneuvering and movement. The relations between nations are so very complicated that you just can't surgically alter them...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: CHAYES: VIEW FROM STATE DEPARTMENT | 3/6/1962 | See Source »

...stores the answers in its memory banks in both digitalized form and on microfilm. By simply pressing buttons and sketching with the light pen, the engineer may enter into a running dialogue with an EDM, recall any of his earlier drawings to the screen in a millisecond and alter its lines and curves at will. The whole system, Itek engineers claim, can be hooked up to permit long-distance design conferences between field sites such as a missile launching pad and the home office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Beating the Language Barrier | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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