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...redistricting plan approved by the House (after census figures showed the state would lose a congressman) is expected to give Republican Heckler a victory over first-term liberal Frank. Under the plan. which has yet to win final approval but is seen as likely to stay intact. Frank will retain only two towns from his old district, while Heckler will maintain 68 per cent of her former constituents...
...these, according to an analysis of the 1980 census prepared by Simmons Market Research Bureau, 54% have never been married, 18% are divorced, 5% separated and 22% widowed. Some 25 million are men, and nearly 34 million are women...
Barone started his career as a self-described "Information junkie" during his childhood in the Detroit suburbs. Census figures, he says, were a favorite toy. From Cranbrook prep school, he went to Harvard, wrote occasionally for The Crimson's editorial board and graduated magna cum laude in 1966. He passed through Harvard Law School three years later and then spent two years clerking for a federal judge in Detroit. But the information bug never left him. And the idea of the Almanac proved irresistible. "It's the sort of thing I always wanted to read, so I wrote...
Barone tends to frame political issues within the broader perspective he draws from his research in census and polling figures. But for all his "macro" ideas, he has not let the change in the quality of his daily, "micro" relations with America's Congressmen and Senators escape his notice. At first, says Barone, he was a little-known figure on Capitol Hill. But as his book--with its circulation of about 50,000--has begun to become quite well-known in Washington, especially amoung journalists, he finds "they all treat me very nicely." The politicians didn't need an almanac...
...North American continent, and with French blessing, the newly independent nation of Louisiana unfurled its flag on July 14, Bastille Day, 1870. Now those unhappy days of strife are long forgotten, and America and Louisiana are friendly neighbors. Our own population is 75 million, according to the 1980 census, just 7 million less than that of Louisiana and its Indian protectorate, Amerinda. Our gross national product, however, is considerably larger: ?439 billion, compared with their combined total of ?369 billion...