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More than 13,000 rounds of artillery had pocked the ridge north of Kontum, and more than 100 fighter-bomber strikes had added their bite. But the three battalions of North Viet Nam's 24th Regiment still clung to the high ground as Operation Hawthorne-and the first major battle of 1966 for the critical Central Highlands-entered its second week...
Acting on a plea from five Virginia Negroes, the Supreme Court last week outlawed the poll tax, one of America's first and last barriers to full Negro suffrage. Though only four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still retained the tax for state elections*(the 24th Amendment barred it in federal elections), it was nonetheless an effective deterrent to voting for many Southern Negroes...
Most of them eventually dropped the levy in favor of more effective literacy tests, and the 24th Amendment to the Constitution (1964) barred it altogether in federal elections. Nonetheless, four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still tax voters in local and state elections.* Last week, in accordance with a congressional directive in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department interceded in a suit brought against the Virginia levy by four Negroes "of very limited means," formally asked the Supreme Court to outlaw "for once and for all" this "serious clog in the exercise of the vote...
Though the Supreme Court has widely extended the guarantees of the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment in recent years, Congress has made the court's decision in this case more difficult by having refused to include state and local elections in the 24th Amendment. How, asked Virginia's Counsel George D. Gibson, can the court kill the tax in state and local elections when a constitutional amendment was required to kill it in federal elections...
...pickings add up to sales of more than $2 billion a year and profits that reached $133.2 million in the fiscal year ended last June. P. & G. dwarfs its closest rivals, Colgate-Palmolive Co. (1964 sales: $806.6 million) and Lever Bros. Co. ($436.4 million), is the largest advertiser and 24th largest industrial company...