Word: democratically
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GRIFFITHS BILL. Introduced in the House by Democrat Martha Griffiths of Michigan, a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Endorsed by the A.F.L.-C.l.O., it would cover unlimited hospitalization, physicians' services including surgery, preventive care and physical checkups, required nursing-home care, rehabilitation services, dental care for all under 16, eye care and allowances for eyeglasses and prescription drugs. It retains a coinsurance feature, mainly to cut down overuse: the patient would pay $2 toward the cost of all visits to the doctor's or dentist's office after the first, which would be free...
...recently became a hero and a martyr after the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court. Florida's Republican Senator Edward Gurney extolled the ex-judge as a "dream" candidate and "unbeatable" in the G.O.P.'s effort to take over the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
...alternative amendment, which has the bipartisan backing of Kansas' Sen ator Robert Dole, a Republican, and Missouri's Senator Thomas Eagleton, a Democrat, would theoretically meet most of the objections. Under their so-called "Federal System Plan," a President would be elected if he received a plurality of the popular vote and either 1) pluralities in more than 50% of the states, or 2) pluralities in combinations of states with more than 50% of the voters. If no one satisfied the requirements, the election would then go to the Electoral College which would be slightly altered so that...
...program and deeper manned probes into space. Apollo 13's flight cost $380 million. And the flight's failure has made them even more dubious about space exploration. "I cannot justify approving moneys to find out whether or not there is some microbe on Mars," complained Manhattan Democrat Edward Koch, a member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, "when in fact I know there are rats in Harlem apartments...
...vote (229 to 105) was far closer than expected. But California Democrat George Miller, the science committee chairman, apparently reflected majority sentiment when he said: "The sympathies and interest generated by this flight, both in this country and around the world, cannot be sold down the river...