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Dirksen's tabletop press conference came as the Senate was approaching a climactic vote on his year-long crusade to modify the 1964 Supreme Court ruling that both branches of state legislatures must be reapportioned strictly according to population. Dirksen proposed a constitutional amendment permitting the voters of each state to decide if they wanted one of their legislative branches set up on a basis other than population. For approval by the Senate, Dirksen needed a two-thirds majority of Senators present and voting -and he now knew he was going to fall a few short. Said...
...clear now that the committee will restrict itself to Baker's financial exploits outside the Senate and that it will not investigate his dealings with Senate members. The Rules Committee thus continues to act with indifference toward the issue of the misuse of privilege within the Senate. Throughout the year-long investigation, the lid has been firmly shut on this Pandora...
Died. Dr. Sidney Haas, 94, Manhattan pediatrician who in the early 1920s found cures for two of childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...
Eliot's report was given to the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, which has been waging a year-long battle to block the construction, which is slated to begin in March...
With civil rights on the way to enactment, the year-long legislative logjam began to break. Last week the Congress also: > Approved, by a 212-to-189 House vote, an Administration-backed $375 million urban-transit bill designed to aid cities in improving their municipal and suburban public-transport systems. Spread over three years, federal funds would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of transit-system renewal or expansion. >Shelved, by a voice vote of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Administration's longstanding medicare bill. Instead, the committee approved a measure that would boost Social...