Word: equalizers
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Reapportionment. The chief reason for the census, as laid out in the U.S. Constitution, is to ensure equal representation in Congress. The earliest census fixed the ratio at one representative for each 33,000 people, gave the House 105 members. The ratio kept changing through the years, un til 1929 when Congress froze maximum House membership at 435 (raised tempo rarily to 437 with the admission of Alaska and Hawaii) and fixed representation merely by dividing the population by that number: in 1950, it was one member for 345,000 people...
...still bent on curtailing his propaganda opportunities, his hosts successfully resisted Nikita's demand for equal time on Paris' city hall steps, where President Eisenhower spoke last September. They also held out against his demand to visit Strasbourg, suspecting that there, on the Franco-German border itself, the Soviet tourist might let fly with a tirade against the Germans...
...very heart of the deeply troubled South, TIME Correspondent Spencer Davidson last week reported the brand-new look of the passive resistance movement spearheaded by Negro youth in 48 cities in eleven Southern states: The young Negro, particularly the young college Negro, is now leading the battle for equal rights. And unless he is tossed into jail and onto a road gang, he is going to lead the battle for a long time to come. There are many reasons...
...Good." Ever since 1950, when the Communists decreed them equal to men, the women of Red China have been spurring. Today nine out of ten of them have jobs, and when they get together, boasts the weekly Women of China, they "do not gossip any more, but talk about how to accomplish their production task." When that subject palls, they switch to discussing the Five Goods (e.g., "Do good in self-study"), and after that, the Seven Stills ("Some women still indulge themselves in ideas of conservatism, self-abasement and dependency...
...maps, radar photos). Signing for it in the presence of a supervising officer, Bulli, 37, now legally assumed responsibility for the thermonuclear bomb in the bay. The spring was drawn: Plane 264 was ready to roll, had a full load of fuel and a multimegaton bomb aboard that is equal in force to ten Atlas ICBMs, or to the sum of all the bombs dropped on Europe by all the Allied planes in World...