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...official to announce expansively that "we are truly representative of every lawyer everywhere throughout the length and breadth of the land." The A.B.A. does indeed claim as members almost half the nation's 265,832 licensed lawyers. Its representation ranges from 83% of all lawyers in thinly populated Nevada to only 30% in lawyer-crammed Washington, D.C. There, its nonmembers include three Supreme Court Justices (Black, Douglas, White) and Chief Justice Warren...
...This convention will be a record breaker-no doubt about it," said John Laxalt, a Nevada lawyer, who is a member of the convention's housing committee...
...Ohio U.S. Senator still represents 4,900,000 citizens, while one U.S. Senator from Nevada represents only 143,000 citizens. This is gross voter discrimination. Perhaps somebody will start court action to force all U.S. Senators to run at large or, better still, to determine if the Constitution is still constitutional...
...that the Supreme Court has once again rewritten the Constitution, I demand that it apply the same principle on the federal level. It should give California 40 Senators to Nevada's 0 on the grounds that more than half the people in Nevada are Californians supporting the indigent natives with gambling losses-a monstrous form of taxation without representation...
...supposed to resemble. Although her widely publicized nude scene has been disnuded, she wears costumes that thinly conceal the loss, and also delivers some of the film's funniest asides. Sinking into the horn-and-hide trappings of a limousine belonging to Western He-man Nevada Smith (Alan Ladd), she burbles in her best Baby Doll manner: "I feel like I've been swallowed by a buffalo...